ideviceinstaller mit Homebrew, apk, apt, dnf, MacPorts, Nix installieren

Projektlinks

• Homepage
• Repository
• Upstream-Dokumentation
• Paketmanager-Seite

Befehle und Aliase

• ideviceinstaller

Projektgeschichte

The project belongs to libimobiledevice, a free software stack born from the absence of iTunes on Linux for early iPhone hardware. libiphone became libimobiledevice with the goal of communicating with iOS devices using reimplemented native protocols and no bundled Apple libraries.

ideviceinstaller focuses on the installation service of an iOS device. Its README describes support for app packages, carrier bundles, developer .app directories, filtered app listing, plist/XML/JSON output, and use across Linux, macOS, Windows, and Android.

Adoptionsgeschichte

The tool became part of the practical libimobiledevice toolkit used by developers, testers, CI systems, and mobile tooling that needed USB-connected device operations outside Apple's own interfaces. Its packaging across Homebrew, Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, MacPorts, Nix, and Alpine reflects that cross-platform role.

The broader libimobiledevice site frames command-line utilities as a way to interact with device services without building an application, covering workflows from basic device information through firmware restore; ideviceinstaller occupies the app-management slice of that toolbox.

Wie es verwendet wird

Typical commands list installed bundle identifiers, install app packages, and uninstall apps by bundle identifier. The 1.2.0 release changed the command-line style to subcommands such as install and list, added JSON output, and added options for external sinf and iTunes metadata.

Because it talks to real devices through libimobiledevice and usbmux-style plumbing, package users care about matching library versions, device firmware behavior, and output formats for automation.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

ideviceinstaller is a high-leverage wrapper around obscure Apple device services. Package maintainers care because it bridges mobile-device protocol libraries, CLI workflows, and OS-specific USB access without needing Apple's proprietary stack.

It is also a good example of a package whose usefulness depends on a family of sibling packages: libimobiledevice, libplist, libusbmuxd, usbmuxd, libimobiledevice-glue, and related utilities tend to move together.

Zeitleiste

• 2007: libimobiledevice development began, according to the project site.
• 2023-07-20: The ideviceinstaller README recorded its documented feature set and usage examples.
• 2025-10-30: ideviceinstaller 1.2.0 was released with subcommands, JSON output, and app-query improvements.
• 2025-10-30: GitHub listed ideviceinstaller 1.2.0 as a release.

Related projects

• libimobiledevice is the direct protocol library dependency. The surrounding stack includes libplist, libusbmuxd, usbmuxd, ifuse, idevicerestore, libirecovery, libideviceactivation, and libimobiledevice-glue.
• In user workflows it overlaps with Xcode device tools and mobile-test frameworks, but its packaging niche is portable command-line access to iOS app installation services.

Quellen

• https://github.com/libimobiledevice/ideviceinstaller
• https://libimobiledevice.org/
• https://libimobiledevice.org/news/2025/10/30/ideviceinstaller-1.2.0-release/
• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/libimobiledevice/ideviceinstaller/master/README.md