I tried following the instructions given in this question: libimobiledevice 1.2 (iOS 8 Support) for Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty but something went wrong and this is what i got when i reached the eighth step:
~/src/libimobiledevice$ dpkg -L libimobiledevice dpkg-query: package 'libimobiledevice' is not installed Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files, and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents.
So yeah, not sure what this means, because i still can't link up my iPhone at all. I thought I followed the directions properly, so not sure what to do now.