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Charge & Backup Your BlackBerry With Linux

by Ronen Halevy on Aug 20th, 2007 at 12:00 pm EST
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If you are not a Linux user you can ignore this post =) Otherwise… I was looking for a solution for using my BlackBerry in Ubuntu and found this wonderful free project called Bcharge which allows you to Backup and charge your BlackBerry from your Linux desktop. Since I am not a Linux guru I will just link to the websites I found and the directions I followed for this to work. Keep in mind that these directions are for version .1 and .2 of Bcharge even though the current release is version .8 but they still worked. I wanted to say thanks to Net Direct Open Solutions for releasing Bcharge for free!

Project Website: http://www.netdirect.ca/software/packages/barry/
SourceForge.net: http://sourceforge.net/projects/barry/
RivviePop: http://rivviepop.wordpress.com/
BBFAQ: http://blackberryfaq.com/index.php/How_to_Use_BCharge

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This entry was posted on Monday, August 20th, 2007 and is filed under BlackBerry FAQ, Free Software, Utilities.

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One Comment to “Charge & Backup Your BlackBerry With Linux”

  1. Posted by: sigger
    April 29, 2009 at 9:55 pm EST

    I tried the Barry project with no luck.
    The thing that worked for me made no sense whatsoever, but it works (Ubuntu 8.04 and 9.04) and I’m not questioning it:
    sudo apt-get libwxgtk-2.8.0

    Hope it works for you too!

    Good luck!