How to: Untether Jailbreak iPad 2 and iPhone 4S on Linux

No need to feel left out Linux users — the long awaited untether jailbreak for iPad 2 and iPhone 4S has been released and successfully ported over to Linux. While you should know by now that there’s no official iTunes application for Linux, there’s still a work around to jailbreaking your device. What do you have to do? It’s pretty simple, just follow our how to guide below. Step download Greenpois0n Absinthe for Linux and unpack it on your desktop. Seen as how there’s no iTunes for Linux, make sure you’ve the libimobiledevice package installed. Libimobiledevice allows Linux to ‘communicate’ with the iPad 2, iPhone 4S, and other iOS devices. To install libimobiledevice on Ubuntu, in terminal type: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:pmcenery/ppa . Accept any warnings and install, then type: sudo apt-get update . Go to the Ubuntu software center and search for libimobiledevice , and install libimobiledevice-utils . Reboot if need be. Run the absinthe.x86 or for a 64-bit machine run absinthe.x86_64 . Make sure your