libimobiledevice tools on Linux

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libimobiledevice tools on Linux

How to Build & Installation

cmake, libusb-1.0.0-dev, libfuse-dev, libbz2-dev, libssl-dev, libcurl4-openssl-dev, libxml2-dev and liblzma-dev is required.

Build

1. libzip (libbz2 liblzma)
2. libplist
3. libimobiledevice (libssl libplist libusbmuxd)
4. libusbmuxd (libplist)
5. ifuse (libfuse libplist libimobiledevice)
6. usbmuxd (libusb libplist libimobiledevice)
7. libideviceactivation (libcurl libxml2 libplist libimobiledevice)
8. ideviceinstaller (libzip libplist libimobiledevice)

#libzip
mkdir build && cd build
cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release && make && sudo make install && sudo ldconfig

#libimobiledevice tools
CFALGS="-O2" CXXFLAGS="-O2" ./autogen.sh && make && sudo make install && sudo ldconfig

Service

Set usbmuxd daemon with systemd. If you don't set this, Linux won't recognize your idevice 😢

sudo cp usbmuxd.service /etc/systemd/system
sudo sustemctl enable usbmuxd
sudo systemctl start usbmuxd

usbmuxd.service

[Unit]
Description=Socket daemon for the usbmux protocol used by Apple device
Documentation=man:usbmuxd(8)

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/local/sbin/usbmuxd --user usbmux --systemd
PIDFile=/var/run/usbmuxd.pid