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.

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Sent: October 7, 2017 3:57 AM
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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