In this post and this post, I was able to restore an iphone 5 and iphone 4s using idevicerestore which uses the libimobiledevice library. Below is the procedure on how I build libimobiledevice from source.
My OS:
Linux sil3ntBox 4.0.0-kali1-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 4.0.4-1+kali2 (2015-06-03) i686 GNU/Linux
This is after I fresh-install the xfce version of kali linux.
A libimobiledevice library is already installed by default. It is called
as libimobiledevice4 when you do apt-cache search. This is the reason
why when I connect the iPhone, it is detected by the OS.
But the important thing is to use the utilities based on libimobiledevice
to communicate with the iPhone. The utilities such as ideviceinfo, idevice_id,
etc. To be able have the utilites, you have to download the source of
libimobiledevice. Using apt-get you can download the source of the library.
apt-get source libimobiledevice
notice that I only use libimobiledevice rather than libimobiledevice4. They are
the same since according to apt-cache show libimobiledevice4:
Package: libimobiledevice4
Source: libimobiledevice
After downloading the source, extract them on the current folder or any folder
you want.
Inside the extracted directory I run:
./configure
eventhough according to the README file included
to compile run:
./autogen.sh
make
make install
since there is no autogen.sh file inside the folder.
This is where I encounter my first error.
Silly me. :)
According to the README
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Requirements
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Development Packages of:
libgnutls or openssl
libplist
libusbmuxd
Software:
usbmuxd
make
autoheader
automake
autoconf
libtool
pkg-config
gcc
Optional:
cython (Python bindings)
doxygen (Documentation)
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So I downloaded all the packages stated above.
This are the errors in sequence as I do ./configure after every package I
installed just to see what is going on..
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ERROR | SOLVED BY:
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configure: error: The pkg-config script.... | apt-get install pkg-config
No package 'libusbmuxd' found | apt-get install libusbmuxd-dev
No package 'libplist' found | apt-get install libplist-dev
No package 'libplist++' found | apt-get install libplist++-dev
Error: |
You probably have to install the |
development version of the python |
package.... | apt-get install cython
..cannot find libplist Cython bindings.. |
configure: error: OpenSSL support | apt-get install libssl-dev
After the last installation, ./configure continues without any error.
Then sudo make, sudo make install, to complete the installation.
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The above is copy-pasted from my notes as I do the installation. Sorry for being lazy.. :) ..
