Getting iOS 10.x working with Slackware 14.2
Posted 03-10-2017 at 06:54 PM by kingbeowulf
Updated 06-10-2017 at 05:26 PM by kingbeowulf (Updates)
Updated 06-10-2017 at 05:26 PM by kingbeowulf (Updates)
Tags ios 10, libimobiledevice, slackware
The version of libimobiledevice-1.2.0 released Jan 28, 2015 and shipped with 14.2 stable is too old to support plug and play for newer iDevices. IPhones, etc will generate a mount or access error. For my work iPhone, I usually just want to dump photos and video. There are patches and workarounds - such as using iCloud. Just goes to show that in 2 years much changes in the mobile device space. There has been dead silence on requests for upstream to push a new release. For example: https://github.com/libimobiledevice/...ice/issues/456
I noticed on https://github.com/libimobiledevice/libimobiledevice that many of the patches etc had been pushed upstream. So I pulled the git master on Feb 26 2017 and created a tarball named libimobiledevice-20170226.tar.xz and edited the original slackbuild in sources/l/libimobiledevice:
The resulting package works well for my iPhone 6s iOS 10.2.1. In fact now, in Xfce, 2 icons pop up: "<name> iPhone" and "Documents on <name>" with all the app directories (pretty much useless), as seen in attached screen shot.
Files and packages are here: http://www.koenigcomputers.com/ while I upgrade the box for linuxgalaxy.org to 14.2.
Update: As confirmed by clavisound's comment, and I had forgotten to mention here, iOS 10.3.2 and my iPhone 6s is again functional, as is a 5C. Also working here is an ipad mini 4 32GB (iOS 10.3.2). So the recent glitch was an issue the Apple addressed in the recent updates.
I noticed on https://github.com/libimobiledevice/libimobiledevice that many of the patches etc had been pushed upstream. So I pulled the git master on Feb 26 2017 and created a tarball named libimobiledevice-20170226.tar.xz and edited the original slackbuild in sources/l/libimobiledevice:
Code:
PKGNAM=libimobiledevice
VERSION=${VERSION:-20170226}
BUILD=${BUILD:-1ewk}
Files and packages are here: http://www.koenigcomputers.com/ while I upgrade the box for linuxgalaxy.org to 14.2.
Update: As confirmed by clavisound's comment, and I had forgotten to mention here, iOS 10.3.2 and my iPhone 6s is again functional, as is a 5C. Also working here is an ipad mini 4 32GB (iOS 10.3.2). So the recent glitch was an issue the Apple addressed in the recent updates.
Total Comments 3
Comments
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So far, iOS 10.3.1 also works with this update, and thunar now lost those funky entries in the original screen shot.Posted 04-09-2017 at 09:44 PM by kingbeowulf 
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Nuts. The iphone 5c just updated and now longer works. Same iOS as the 6s; same desktop.
Posted 04-11-2017 at 11:25 PM by kingbeowulf
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Thank you, it works on iPhone 6, iOS-10.3.2.
I think it's more user-friendly to provide the package, or better to tip Pat to provide this upgrade.Posted 06-10-2017 at 02:50 PM by clavisound
