Mtp is a barely a protocol, its implementation actually differs widely for each device that uses it. I remember years ago I needed it for a old hard drive mp3 player I had and it was always annoying to get working to say the least. That said if you need support for a recent device that uses it you should always get the latest from source because no two devices implement it the same way, so it's a race between the hardware manufacturers and the maintainers of libmtp which the maintainers can never really win but they do their best to keep up.
Original Message From: toddandma...@zoho.com Sent: October 7, 2017 3:57 AM To: SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS@fnal.gov Subject: Re: How do I access mtp from the command line? On 10/07/2017 12:27 AM, Jos Vos wrote: > On Fri, Oct 06, 2017 at 03:44:51PM -0700, ToddAndMargo wrote: > >> With a lot of help from Vladimir, here is my write up: >> >> SL 7.4: how to operate MTP devices from the command line; >> >> First download and install libmtp and libmtp-examples from: >> http://people.redhat.com/bnocera/libmtp-rhel-7.5/ > > EPEL has ready-to-use libmtp packages, as well ass jmtpfs (FUSE > and libmtp based filesystem). Never used it myself. > > Sounds like a much simpler way to go. > The current libmtp did not recognize my wife's tablet. Red Hat fixed that and posted it on the link I gave. See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1356288
