Libimobiledevice Work on Ubuntu but Not in Raspberry

I recently installed libimobiledevice in ubuntu via sudo apt-get install libimobiledevice and it worked like a charm with ios 8.1.2 ...

But when I compile and install the latest libimobiledevice in raspberry.ideviceinfo or ideviceinstaller always give me the following error

ERROR: Could not connect to lockdownd, error code -16

If this is a bug in the latest version, how can I know what is the version installed in Ubuntu so that I can download that version and compile on a raspberry pi ?

This is the latest install script libimobiledevice that I used for install :

git clone 
git clone 
git clone 
git clone 
git clone 

export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig
echo "export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig" | sudo tee -a /etc/bash.bashrc

cd libplist && ./autogen.sh && make && sudo make install && cd ..
cd libusbmuxd && ./autogen.sh && make && sudo make install && cd ..
cd libimobiledevice && ./autogen.sh && make && sudo make install && cd ..
cd usbmuxd && ./autogen.sh && make && sudo make install && cd ..
cd ifuse && ./autogen.sh && make && sudo make install && cd ..

groupadd -g 140 usbmux &>/dev/null
useradd -c 'usbmux user' -u 140 -g usbmux -d / -s /sbin/nologin usbmux &>/dev/null
passwd -l usbmux &>/dev/null

echo /usr/local/lib | sudo tee /etc/ld.so.conf.d/libimobiledevice-libs.conf
sudo ldconfig
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1 Answer

To show information about a package, including its version, open the terminal and type:

apt-cache show package-name  

Replace package-name in the above command with the name of your package. The problem is there is no package called libimobiledevice in the Ubuntu repositories, but there are a few packages with names that are similar to libimobiledevice (e.g. libimobiledevice4). To show these packages run the following command:

apt-cache search libimobiledevice*  

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