Ubuntu
libimobiledevice package

  1. Bug #1623666
  2. Comment #26

Comment 26 for bug 1623666

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Brad Lucier (lucier) wrote : Re: iOS10 will not connect to Ubuntu

I'm not an expert, but it seems that the pace of Apple's OS changes and the updates needed by the libimobiledevice team to keep up with them might mean that one cannot rely on either Ubuntu's packaging of libimobiledevice or a separate ppa, but must just build things from the git repository, if you know how.

This worked for me:

    19 16:35 git clone https://github.com/libimobiledevice/libimobiledevice.git
    20 16:35 cd libimobiledevice
    21 16:35 ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr/local/libimobiledevice
    22 16:36 make
    23 16:36 sudo make install

At this point I changed my LD_LIBRARY_PATH to include /usr/local/libimobiledevice/lib at the front, so ifuse, etc., will load the new library instead of the pre-installed one. I use tcsh so that command looks like

setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH /usr/local/libimobiledevice/lib:

Then the following worked (after some fidgeting, rebooting my iPod Touch, etc.):

    37 16:44 idevicepair pair
    38 16:45 ifuse /media/iPod/

At least I can load my music into Rhythmbox, etc.