How To Install ideviceinstaller on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ideviceinstaller on Debian 11.
What is ideviceinstaller
ideviceinstaller is:
ideviceinstaller is a tool to interact with the installation_proxy of an iDevice allowing to install, upgrade, uninstall, archive, restore, and enumerate installed or archived applications.
It makes use of the libimobiledevice library that allows communication with the devices.
There are three methods to install ideviceinstaller on Debian 11. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install ideviceinstaller Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install ideviceinstaller using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install ideviceinstaller
Install ideviceinstaller Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install ideviceinstaller using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install ideviceinstaller
Install ideviceinstaller Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install ideviceinstaller using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install ideviceinstaller
How To Uninstall ideviceinstaller on Debian 11
To uninstall only the ideviceinstaller package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove ideviceinstaller
Uninstall ideviceinstaller And Its Dependencies
To uninstall ideviceinstaller and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove ideviceinstaller
Remove ideviceinstaller Configurations and Data
To remove ideviceinstaller configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge ideviceinstaller
Remove ideviceinstaller configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove ideviceinstaller configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ideviceinstaller
Dependencies
ideviceinstaller have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ideviceinstaller package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
