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title = "Checkra1n GUI on Other Distros"
date = "2021-03-25T21:19:51-05:00"
author = "bbaovanc"
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tags = ["guide", "linux", "archlinux", "jailbreak", "checkra1n"]
keywords = ["checkra1n", "gui", "linux", "arch linux"]
description = """
You can run the GUI version of checkra1n on non Debian-based distributions.
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## Introduction
The official cross-distribution build of checkra1n only contains a CLI and TUI.
However, the version available in the
[checkra1n APT repository](https://checkra.in/linux) also contains a GTK-based
GUI which can be accessed using the `--gui` flag, or the included
`checkra1n.desktop` file.
## Other Distributions
First, download the Debian package available at
`https://assets.checkra.in/debian/checkra1n_VERSION_amd64.deb` (as of writing,
`VERSION` is currently `0.12.2`). Then, extract the `checkra1n` executable from
the package, and install the correct shared libraries. Here are the most
important ones, and their corresponding package names on Arch Linux:
- libimobiledevice-1.0.so.6 (`libimobiledevice`)
- libirecovery-1.0.so.3 (`libirecovery`)
- libtvcontrol.so (`libtvcontrol`)
- libplist-2.0.so.3 (`libplist`)
- libncurses.so.5 (`ncurses5-compat-libs`)
I found these by running the binary and then finding and installing the package
that contained the shared object I was missing.
I also made an AUR package named
[`checkra1n-gui`](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/checkra1n-gui),
which does all this automatically.
## Conclusion
As I expected, there is nothing preventing the checkra1n GUI from working on non
Debian-based distributions (as far as I can tell).