I'm new to Ubuntu.
I'm trying to transfer pictures and videos from my iphone 5 IOS 10.3.1 to my Ubuntu 16.04 system but when I plug the phone in, it doesn't even show that I connect the phone to the computer.
How can I fix it? Is there something I could do that doesn't require installing a windows virtual machine?
I have a new iPhone and have to use updated drivers from a ppa. Created mount point, pair phone, and mount with ifuse. I also then can drill down to /mnt/iPhone in Naulitus and see files.
sudo apt-get update
#ppa not required with 20.04 or newer
#sudo add-apt-repository ppa:martin-salbaba/ppa+libimobiledevice
sudo apt-get install ideviceinstaller libimobiledevice-utils ifuse libimobiledevice6 libplist3
sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade
sudo mkdir /mnt/iPhone
sudo chown -R $USER:$USER /mnt/iPhone
sudo chmod -R a+rwX,o-w /mnt/iPhone
idevicepair pair
ideviceinfo -d
ifuse /mnt/iPhone/
ls /mnt/iPhone
to unmount:
fusermount -u /mnt/iPhone
idevicepair unpair
SUCCESS: Unpaired with device 78c......
See also & post #19:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libimobiledevice/+bug/1623666
There is an excellent tutorial. https://gist.github.com/samrocketman/70dff6ebb18004fc37dc5e33c259a0fc
You need to edit your ~/.bashrc file first and append this to the end:
[ ! -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}"
After that, just log in again and follow the steps from the tutorial.
