How To Install irecovery on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install irecovery
on Ubuntu 22.04.
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 Ubuntu 22.04. 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 Ubuntu. 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 Ubuntu 22.04
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 Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove irecovery
Remove irecovery Configurations and Data
To remove irecovery
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 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
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install irecovery
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.