Absinthe: Jailbreak iPhone 4S and iPad 2 on Linux

By Sajan Gurung on February 5th, 2012No Comments

Absinthe is  untethered jailbreak tool for iPhone 4S and iPad 2. With the release of Absinthe version 0.3 by Chronic Dev Team, the tool added support to jailbreak iPhone 4S and iPad 2 even under Linux platform. 

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Currently, Absinthe is available for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows.

Following are the requirements in order to Jailbreak iPhone 4S and iPad 2 on Linux.

  • iPhone 4S with firmware 5.0/5.0.1
  • iPad 2 with firmware 5.0/5.0.1
  • libmobiledevice (A software library about the protocols to support iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad devices on Linux.)

If you are a Ubuntu user, you can follow the steps shown in the video tutorial from iDownloadBlog embedded below to jailbreak iPhone 4S and iPad 2 under Ubuntu.

Note that Ubuntu 10.10 and Ubuntu 10.04 users can install latest libmobiledevice from its PPA . Other Ubuntu users need to download the latest libmobiledevice from its official homepage.

ATTENTION: Make sure that you back up your iOS device before jailbreaking with Absinthe.

Download Absinthe | via: iDownloadBlog

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