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The heimdall-flash package in the repos install Heimdall 1.4.1 but this doesn't work with my device.

How do I install version 1.4.2 on Ubuntu 19.04?

I tried downloading the source and compiling following instructions in this file, but I'm getting an error message 

-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
See also "/home/chris/Heimdall-master/build/CMakeFiles/CMakeOutput.log".

This file doesn't have the word error in it.

To Do
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I managed to compile Heimdall from source. The error was due to a missing dependency.

This is how I installed it:

  1. Download Heimdall from https://gitlab.com/BenjaminDobell/Heimdall/tree/v1.4.2
  2. Unzip and cd into the Heimdall folder.
  3. Install dependencies: sudo apt install qt5-default libgl1-mesa-dev build-essential cmake zlib1g-dev libusb-1.0-0-dev
  4. Create build directory: mkdir build
  5. cd into it: cd build
  6. Run: `cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ..
  7. Run: make

Heimdall is now compiled and the binary is found in the build/bin folder.

To Do
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Struggled with the same problem and found an another way. You can try to find the .deb package for 1.4.2 somewhere in the net. However there seems not to be such to be found easily but .rpms are, like this (see the download section of that page).

So as a fallback solution there is an option to install it from .rpm package and for that you need to install alien that can be used to convert .rpm to .deb.

sudo apt install alien

Then after downloading .rpm it is just like

sudo alien heimdall-1.4.2-alt1.x86_64.rpm

That should respond

heimdall_1.4.2-1_amd64.deb generated

Then it is just to install

sudo dpkg -i heimdall_1.4.2-1_amd64.deb
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This is how I got Heimdall 1.4.2 to work on my Linux Mint 19 xfce (64bit) machine.

To Do's solution, mine and the solution my post is based on (phd21 at this thread: https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=266217) all refer back to the developer's instructions at: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Benjamin-Dobell/Heimdall/master/Linux/README, appendix B.

My suggested code, based on phd21's, contains a couple corrections. For example, the Heimdall project has since moved back to github from gitlab, and the 'git clone' instruction has been updated to reflect that move.

sudo apt-get install build-essential cmake git curl wget checkinstall zlib1g-dev qt5-default libusb-1.0-0-dev libusb-dev libgl1-mesa-glx libgl1-mesa-dev libqt5x11extras5 libqt5x11extras5-dev

git clone https://github.com/Benjamin-Dobell/Heimdall


cd Heimdall-master


mkdir build


cd build


cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ..


sudo make


sudo make install

You run the software with:

heimdall-frontend
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