02 - Libimobiledevice tool - Linux - iOS

update 29 aug 2024

To run a local test on an iOS device, you need to install the libimobiledevice library.

Please run the following commands:

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install -y build-essential pkg-config checkinstall git autoconf automake
sudo apt-get install -y libtool-bin libssl-dev
sudo apt-get install -y libusb-1.0.0-dev libavahi-client-dev

rm -rf libimobiledevice-tool
mkdir libimobiledevice-tool
cd libimobiledevice-tool

git clone https://github.com/libimobiledevice/libplist.git
cd libplist
git checkout 612cdf3ffd3e8c200e4a21ec15e3b3f0af170b42
./autogen.sh
make
sudo make install
cd ..

git clone https://github.com/libimobiledevice/libimobiledevice-glue.git
cd libimobiledevice-glue
git checkout 0d586cd58680d7b1c2eb08aed7eafbf6328d5d1f
./autogen.sh
make
sudo make install
cd ..

git clone https://github.com/tihmstar/libgeneral.git
cd libgeneral
git checkout 77
./autogen.sh
make
sudo make install
cd ..

git clone https://github.com/libimobiledevice/libusbmuxd.git
cd libusbmuxd
git checkout a7f0543fb1ecb20ac7121c0fd77297200e0e43fc
./autogen.sh
make
sudo make install
cd ..

git clone https://github.com/libimobiledevice/libimobiledevice.git
cd libimobiledevice
git checkout 77c727bdfeed87abd237b8840f685a1f2084ab50
./autogen.sh
make
sudo make install
cd ..

sudo ldconfig

sudo apt-get -y install ideviceinstaller

Open a terminal. Use the following command to verify the installation:

ideviceinfo --version

It should show the current version of libimobiledevice.