Install Heimdall

You can build the Heimdall suite yourself by following our documentation available here Once you have built the suite follow the below steps.

Install

On Ubuntu

Run the following commands to install heimdall for all users:

$ unzip /path/to/heimdall_ubuntu.zip -d /tmp
$ cp /tmp/bin/heimdall* /usr/bin/
$ rm -rf /tmp/bin

On MacOSX

Run the following commands to install heimdall for all users:

$ unzip /path/to/heimdall_macos.zip -d /tmp
$ cp /tmp/bin/heimdall /usr/local/bin
$ rm -rf /tmp/bin

Validate

In a terminal, you can run run the following command to check that everything is working properly:

$ heimdall info
Heimdall v1.4.2

Copyright (c) 2010-2017 Benjamin Dobell, Glass Echidna
http://www.glassechidna.com.au/

This software is provided free of charge. Copying and redistribution is
encouraged.

If you appreciate this software and you would like to support future
development please consider donating:
http://www.glassechidna.com.au/donate/

Heimdall utilises libusbx for all USB communication:
    http://www.libusb.org/

libusbx is licensed under the LGPL-2.1:
    http://www.gnu.org/licenses/licenses.html#LGPL