How to mount an iphone 5s to Ubuntu 14.04?

Question

I am completely new to linux so I need things spelled out for me. I'm trying to mount an iphone 5s with ios 8.3 to Ubuntu 14.04 running Nvidia drivers.

Solution 1

iOS 8 requires libimobiledevice-1.2, which is not available as packet for 14.04 imho. Instructions on how to install here

Solution 2

First, let me apologize for this information not being as complete as I would like it.

The following is confirmed to work on Ubuntu 15.04 (Vivid Vervet):

1. Install the required support libraries:

   sudo apt-get install libimobiledevice-utils usbmuxd ifuse

2. You will want to reboot due to udev entries updated per "usbmuxd".

3. The following commands are used to pair you iPhone/iPad devices to your PC:

   mkdir /media/iphone
   chown {your userID}:{your groupID} /media/iphone
   chmod 775 /media/iphone
   /usr/bin/idevice_id -l
   

   (this command displays a 40 character identifier unique to your idevice)

   /usr/bin/idevicepair -u ## pair
   ifuse /media/iphone -u 
   

   ...or you can simplify the last two lines by typing this:

   /usr/bin/idevicepair -u \`/usr/bin/idevice_id -l\` pair
   ifuse /media/iphone -u \`/usr/bin/idevice_id -l\`
   

This works for me :)

Solution 3

idevicepair and ifuse are the tools I used on Kubuntu 15.10 to mount my iphone 6 and transfer 40GB of pictures.

thank you

Comments

[xangua]

The thing is, with Apple devices, you will probably want to use latest Ubuntu releases bor better results. Not saying it will work but mounting Apple devices has been posible since Ubuntu 10.04...until iOS updates and break support, and then a new Ubuntu release bring it back and then an ending story.

[Ben Winding]

Could you please elaborate?

[Mathieu J.]

I recently had to do it, if your device run iOS 10, you need to compile the latest idevicepair from github source. I followed this procedure gist.github.com/samrocketman/70dff6ebb18004fc37dc5e33c259a0f‌​c

[Tharindu]

after installing libimobiledevice this worked for me - im using kubuntu