Error installing iFuse to access iPad device content

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I’m trying to install libimobiledevice and ifuse to be able to transfer files from my laptop to my iPad (mini 4).
Everything else installs fine, except iFuse. I try to install that using yay -S ifuse and this happens

make  all-recursive
make[1]: Entering directory '/home/aayush/.cache/yay/ifuse/src/ifuse-1.1.4'
Making all in docs
make[2]: Entering directory '/home/aayush/.cache/yay/ifuse/src/ifuse-1.1.4/docs'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for 'all'.
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/aayush/.cache/yay/ifuse/src/ifuse-1.1.4/docs'
Making all in src
make[2]: Entering directory '/home/aayush/.cache/yay/ifuse/src/ifuse-1.1.4/src'
  CC       ifuse.o
ifuse.c:41:10: fatal error: libimobiledevice/libimobiledevice.h: No such file or directory
 #include <libimobiledevice/libimobiledevice.h>
          ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
compilation terminated.
make[2]: *** [Makefile:379: ifuse.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/aayush/.cache/yay/ifuse/src/ifuse-1.1.4/src'
make[1]: *** [Makefile:377: all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/aayush/.cache/yay/ifuse/src/ifuse-1.1.4'
make: *** [Makefile:318: all] Error 2
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().
    Aborting...
error making: ifuse

I can see it can’t find libimobiledevice. In fact, when I try

$ which libimobiledevice

it says

which: no libimobiledevice in (~/Tools/moog_nosm/moog_nosm_NOV2019:/home/aayush/.
iraf/bin:/home/aayush/miniconda3/bin:/home/aayush/miniconda3/condabin:/home/aayus
h/.iraf/bin:/home/aayush/.local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/
lib/jvm/default/bin:/usr/bin/site_perl:/usr/bin/vendor_perl:/usr/bin/core_perl:/v
ar/lib/snapd/snap/bin:/home/aayush/Documents/julia-1.5.3/bin)

I tried checking where libimobiledevice is installed via pacman -Ql | grep libimobiledevice and a part of the output I got is

libimobiledevice /usr/include/libimobiledevice/libimobiledevice.h
...
libimobiledevice /usr/lib/
libimobiledevice /usr/lib/libimobiledevice-1.0.so
libimobiledevice /usr/lib/libimobiledevice-1.0.so.6
libimobiledevice /usr/lib/libimobiledevice-1.0.so.6.0.0

I’m not sure why it can’t find it and how to make it work.

Help pls.

Also, if anyone knows a more convenient way of transferring files between an iPad to Linux, please suggest. This is a pain.

2

Maybe better use ifuse-git and build it with pamac
pamac build ifuse-git

moved to #support:aur

3

Hey, I’m sorry for an absurdly late reply. I needed to transfer files again and so I tried doing what you suggested

config.status: creating doxygen.cfg
config.status: creating config.h
config.status: executing depfiles commands
config.status: executing libtool commands

Configuration for libimobiledevice 1.3.1:
-------------------------------------------

  Install prefix: .........: /usr
  Debug code ..............: no
  Python bindings .........: yes
  SSL support backend .....: OpenSSL

  Now type 'make' to build libimobiledevice 1.3.1,
  and then 'make install' for installation.

make  all-recursive
make[1]: Entering directory '/var/tmp/pamac-build-aayush/libimobiledevice-git/src/libimobiledevice'
Making all in common
make[2]: Entering directory '/var/tmp/pamac-build-aayush/libimobiledevice-git/src/libimobiledevice/common'
  CC       thread.lo
  CC       debug.lo
  CC       socket.lo
  CC       utils.lo
  CC       userpref.lo
In file included from utils.c:37:
utils.h:37:10: fatal error: plist/plist.h: No such file or directory
 #include <plist/plist.h>
          ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
compilation terminated.
userpref.c:39:10: fatal error: usbmuxd.h: No such file or directory
 #include <usbmuxd.h>
          ^~~~~~~~~~~
compilation terminated.
In file included from debug.c:34:
debug.h:26:10: fatal error: plist/plist.h: No such file or directory
 #include <plist/plist.h>
          ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
compilation terminated.
make[2]: *** [Makefile:470: userpref.lo] Error 1
make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
make[2]: *** [Makefile:470: utils.lo] Error 1
make[2]: *** [Makefile:470: debug.lo] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory '/var/tmp/pamac-build-aayush/libimobiledevice-git/src/libimobiledevice/common'
make[1]: *** [Makefile:460: all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/var/tmp/pamac-build-aayush/libimobiledevice-git/src/libimobiledevice'
make: *** [Makefile:390: all] Error 2
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().
    Aborting...

I checked if it’s because I don’t have libplist but I do

$ pamac search -i plist
libplist-git                                         1:2.2.0.r33.gfeb0bcd-1  AUR 
    A library to handle Apple Property List format
    whereas it's binary or XML

Can you suggest what to do?

4

I can’t reproduce the issue. Clean up the build folders and try again.