The Heimdall project does not provide up to date packages. This means that in some cases, it will just not work. Consequently, we provide patched sources and corresponding binaries.

If you prefer to build the Heimdall suite by yourself, you can follow our documentation available here

Download Heimdall binaries

Download binaries provided by us here for you platform.

Install

On Windows

At the moment, the Windows build is not available. Please build it by yourself following our documentation.

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