The packages we need for ubuntu12.04 and its derived destros are:
libimobiledevices, libplist, libusbmuxd
Mostly the important thing is libimobiledevices. and it has an official site: http://libimobiledevice.org . You can download the sources codes there.
Now I have compiled those packages for Debian7/ubuntu12.04/linuxmint13 x64 version . You may download and try.
libimobiledevice 1.2.0
http://pan.baidu.com/s/1i3zkwpn
libplist 1.12
http://pan.baidu.com/s/1c0pRf0G
libusbmuxd 1.0.10
http://pan.baidu.com/s/1o6uWzRs
Happy hacking!
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updated on 12/02/2015
Add support for ubuntu14.04 LTS
You can get the package from ubuntu APT or compile by yourself.
1) Get it from APT
sudo apt-get install libimobiledevice-dev -y
http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/libimobiledevice-dev
The version of libimobiledevice is 1.1.5. Actually the lastest libimobiledevice (1.2.0) supports iOS 9. So if you want to use that, just compile by yourself.
2) Compile by yourself
Before doing this, you should remove the package named **libimobiledevice-dev** if you had installed before.
sudo apt-get remove libimobiledevice-dev libusbmuxd-dev libplist-dev usbmuxd -y
Before your compiling libimobiledevice for your Linux system, you should have some packages installed, those including libusbmuxd ( >= 1.0.9) and libplist ( >=1.11)
(1) Pre-compiling: Compiling libplist
http://www.libimobiledevice.org/downloads/libplist-1.12.tar.bz2
(2) Pre-compiling: Compiling libusbmuxd
http://www.libimobiledevice.org/downloads/libusbmuxd-1.0.10.tar.bz2
（3）libfuse-dev
sudo apt-get install libfuse-dev -y
（4）ifuse
wget -c http://www.libimobiledevice.org/downloads/ifuse-1.1.3.tar.bz2
tar -xjvf ifuse-1.1..tar.bz2
cd ifuse-1.1./
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/ # This is important for setting sys lib path
make
make install
Then go compling libimobiledevice,
sudo apt-get install libplist-dev libplist++-dev libgnutls-dev libssl-dev
sudo git clone https://github.com/libimobiledevice/libimobiledevice
cd libimobiledevice/
./autogen.sh
make
make install
If you have error as this:
/src/.libs/libimobiledevice.so: undefined reference to `SSLv3_method'
Issue and solution from : https://github.com/libimobiledevice/libimobiledevice/issues/254
Just try download the source codes from github rather than the official site.
Or if you want to build a deb package file
sudo checkinstall -D -install=no -pkgversion=1.2.1 -pkgname=libimobiledevice make install
dpkg -i libimobiledevice-1.2.--ubuntu.deb
# Then check it where it was installed
dpkg -L libimobiledevice
Or you don't need to compile by yourself, just download these packages for your system.
Downloads for ubuntu 14.04 AMD64
1) libplist 1.12
http://pan.baidu.com/s/1mgESAco
2) libusbmuxd 1.0.10
http://pan.baidu.com/s/1gdi8KBD
3) libimobiledevice 1.2.1
http://pan.baidu.com/s/1eQg8Xkm
Happy hacking!