Ever wanted to access your iPhones filesystem on your Linux machine? Sick of using Windows / iTunes, because Linux doesn't have the tools? Follow these instructions and you’ll have disk access to your iPhone or iPod working in no time flat. This post is about setting up yesterdays release of iFuse.

What is iFuse?

iFuse allows you to mount an iPhone or iPod Touch under Linux using the USB cable. You can view and edit the files similar to a normal USB disk drive. iFuse does not require "jailbreaking" or voiding your warranty and works without needing extra software installed on the phone (such as `ssh`). iFuse uses the native Apple AFC protocol over a normal USB cable in order to access the device's media files.

Installation Instructions (Ubuntu jaunty)

1) Add the following lines to the file "/etc/apt/sources.list":

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/jonabeck/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main

2) Add the PPA key to your keyring by executing:

sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com e20da6af9caee36095d1282ef104610cf0876ac9

3) Update the package cache by executing:

sudo apt-get update

4) Install ifuse with

sudo apt-get install ifuse

5) Plug in your iphone with an USB cable

6) Enjoy!

Supported Devices

iFuse documentation says it works with Apple iPhone/iPod Touch 1.0/1.1/1.1.1/1.2/1.3/2.0+.

Final Notes

The packages contained in the PPA repository of Jonathan Beck should be considered a preview. Don't use them with your business iPhone / iPod and blame me or the developers if something goes wrong. Although iFuse is now in a working state it is still under development and should be considered unstable. You have been warned.

The repository also contains packages for intrepid.

Packages for

• openSUSE 11.0, 11.1, Factory
• Fedora 10
• Mandriva 2009

can be found here:
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home://FunkyM://iphone/

Gentoo ebuilds should be available elsewhere soon. Debian Experimental sources of ifuse are not yet updated.

UPDATE: Fixed two typos.