Charge iPad / iPhone / iPod Touch in Ubuntu or Linux Mint

This simple tutorial will show you how to charge ipad, iTouch, iPhone (4s) in Ubuntu via USB port. There’s a project ipad_charge on github.com that provides charging control utility to enable/disable charging of an Apple device connected to USB port. Here are the supported devices:

• iPad
• iPad2
• iPad3
• iPod Touch 2G
• iPod Touch 3G
• iPod Touch 4G
• iPhone 3GS
• iPhone 4
• iPhone 4S

Preparation:
Hit Ctrl+Alt+T to launch a terminal window, paste following command and press enter to install the dependencies:

sudo apt-get install libusb-1.0-0 libusb-1.0-0-dev git git-core

Install ipad_charge:
First execute this command to get the source:

git clone https://github.com/mkorenkov/ipad_charge.git

Navigate to the folder and install:

cd ./ipad_charge
make
make install

Now plug in your Apple device via USB port and it should start charging!

via ubuntuguide