I was unable to import photos from my iPhone (using iOS 10) in Linux Mint 18. The libimobiledevice
and ifuse
that come with the distro didn't work.
The solution is to compile libimobiledevice and ifuse from source.
I forked this document from other Gists to document what works for me in Linux Mint 18. It worked for me on Linux Mint 18.3 with iOS 10.3.3.
Set up your environment before building. You may build and install packages to your home directory at $HOME/usr
,
sudo apt-get install -y build-essential git
Edit .bashrc
and include the following lines,
[ ! -d "$HOME/usr/src" ] && mkdir -p "$HOME/usr/src"
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="${HOME}/usr/lib/pkgconfig:${PKG_CONFIG_PATH}"
export CPATH="${HOME}/usr/include:${CPATH}"
export MANPATH="${HOME}/usr/share/man:${MANPATH}"
export PATH="${HOME}/usr/bin:${PATH}"
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="${HOME}/usr/lib:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}"
Notes:
- Important!
PATH
andLD_LIBRARY_PATH
is important because it is the runtime oflibimobiledevice
andifuse
to fix mounting iOS 10 devices. MANPATH
is only used when looking up man pages so it's optional (I recommend it).PKG_CONFIG_PATH
andCPATH
is used at compile time to resolve dependencies.
Make sure to refresh the enviroment,
source ~/.bashrc
Install development packages,
sudo apt-get install libbz2-dev python-dev autoconf automake libtool pkg-config libplist-dev libplist++-dev libusb-1.0-0-dev libgcrypt20-dev libgnutls28-dev libgpg-error-dev libfuse-dev libssl-dev cython
Clone the sources,
cd ~/usr/src
for x in libusbmuxd usbmuxd libimobiledevice ifuse; do git clone https://github.com/libimobiledevice/${x}.git;done
Now build in the following order (the order matters),
libusbmuxd
libimobiledevice
usbmuxd
ifuse
cd ~/usr/src/libusbmuxd
./autogen.sh --prefix="$HOME/usr"
make && make install
cd ~/usr/src/libimobiledevice
./autogen.sh --prefix="$HOME/usr"
make && make install
Unfortunately, sudo make install
is required because it needs to write to /lib/udev/rules.d
and /lib/systemd/system
.
cd ~/usr/src/usbmuxd
./autogen.sh --prefix="$HOME/usr"
make && sudo make install
cd ~/usr/src/ifuse
./autogen.sh --prefix="$HOME/usr"
make && make install
Create a mount point and verify the paths of the tools before mounting using ifuse
,
$ mkdir -p ~/usr/mnt
$ type -p ifuse
/home/username/usr/bin/ifuse
$ type -p idevicepair
/home/username/usr/bin/idevicepair
Now attempt to mount using ifuse
,
$ idevicepair pair
SUCCESS: Paired with device *****
$ ifuse ~/usr/mnt/
$ ls ~/usr/mnt/
AirFair Books CloudAssets DCIM Downloads FactoryLogs iTunes_Control MediaAnalysis PhotoData Photos PhotoStreamsData PublicStaging Purchases Radio Recordings Safari Vibrations
The photos are in DCIM folder.
When you're finished, unmount ~/usr/mnt
using fusermount
. For example,
fusermount -u ~/usr/mnt
All steps are okay but when i reach the command:
idevicepair pair
I got this message:
ERROR: No device found!
Is the device properly connected?
If it is make sure that your user has permissions to access the raw USB device.
If you're still having issues try unplugging the device and reconnecting it.
but when I run the command:
lsusb
I find My device.