How To Install irecovery on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install irecovery on Debian 11.
What is irecovery
irecovery is:
libirecovery is a library which implements communication to iBoot/iBSS recovery mode found on Apple’s iOS devices via USB.
This package contains a command-line utility named irecovery.
There are three methods to install irecovery 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 irecovery Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install irecovery using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install irecovery
Install irecovery Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install irecovery using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install irecovery
Install irecovery 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 irecovery using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install irecovery
How To Uninstall irecovery on Debian 11
To uninstall only the irecovery package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove irecovery
Uninstall irecovery And Its Dependencies
To uninstall irecovery and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove irecovery
Remove irecovery Configurations and Data
To remove irecovery configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge irecovery
Remove irecovery configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove irecovery configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge irecovery
Dependencies
irecovery have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install irecovery package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
