Download the installer script from the usual place. If you want to take advantage of being able to download from iOS devices, then running the install script instead of the in-program updater is recommended.
To install the alpha version, run the installer script like this:
iOS devices are now accessed using a software library written specifically to
communicate with iOS devices, libimobiledevice. Previously, gPhoto2 was used,
but gPhoto2 is unreliable with iOS because it appears Apple does not follow
the PTP standard. Please note that on some systems, it can take some minutes
for the iOS device to appear after it has been plugged in.
Distribution package maintainers should modify
rapid-photo-downloader packages to include the following package
dependencies:
Debian / Ubuntu, Fedora:
libimobiledevice-utils
ifuse
fuse
openSUSE:
imobiledevice-tools
ifuse
fuse
Python 3.6 is now the minimum Python version.
Update install.py script to correctly enable Power Tools repository on
CentOS 8, and the Qt5 wayland package on Fedora and CentOS 8.
I amended the initial post to reflect the need to run the install script like this:
python3 install.py --devel
Thanks for asking, and thanks as ever for keeping the openSUSE package up to date. It should be a hard require. It shouldn’t be too burdensome for those who never plug in iOS devices because libimobiledevice itself is in any case already installed.
Hello, I’m on Linux Kubuntu 20.4 (LTS).
The required libraries fuse, ifuse and libimobiledevice-utils are installed.
Installed RPD 0.9.27a1 successfully (no error messages detected).
Connected my iPhone 7 / IOS 14.7.1 and ‘trusted’ it.
Connected it many times, alas, only this pop-up window appears and then … nothing else happens.
Interesting! I assume you had the device plugged before Rapid Photo Downloader startup, and something is causing a continuous loop of error-retry-error.
I tested it on KDE Neon, which is also based on Ubuntu 20.04, and it worked fine for me.
Good to know, then I still have some hope, although so many brave endeavours of taming the iPhone connection under linux in the past are rotting in the sand. I opened a bug report on github as requested.
