To communicate with iOS devices, there exists a great library: libimobiledevice. Unfortunately, the latest official release is a bit old and doesn't support the most recent versions of iOS. The upstream version is much better, but it isn't easily available in Linux distros (because it's not a release). That's why I've made a little script that downloads, builds and makes an RPM package of libimobiledevice!
- Run the create-package.sh script from the command line. It will download the latest version of libimobiledevice and build several RPM packages.
- Then, install the packages you want with
sudo dnf install <rpm files>.
You need the following packages to make the script work: rpmdevtools, usbmuxd, libtool, automake, autoconf, make, gcc, pkgconfig, python-devel, libusbmuxd-devel, libplist-devel, python2-Cython, libplist-python, openssl-devel (or gnutls-devel)
Don't worry: the script detects any missing requirement and can install it for you.
Building an RPM package with root privileges is dangerous, because a mistake in SPEC file could result in running nasty commands. See http://serverfault.com/questions/10027/why-is-it-bad-to-build-rpms-as-root.
| Package's name | Description |
|---|---|
| libimobiledevice | Main package. Provides the core library. Allows the nautilus file browser to connect to your iOS device. |
| libimobiledevice-debuginfo | Useful only for debugging libimobiledevice. |
| libimobiledevice-devel | Development package. Useful to develop applications that use libimobiledevice. |
| libimobiledevice-utils | Utilities package. Provides a lot of command-line tools to interact with iOS devices |
When a new commit is pushed to the libimobiledevice's repository, you just you have to run the create-packages.sh again, and to install the RPM packages normally (ie with sudo dnf install <rpm files>).
This will update any old libimobiledevice's package.
- Fedora 24
- Fedora 25
It probably work on other RPM-based distros but I haven't tested it. Let me know if it works for you!