Question: idb companion not showing after brew install

[hsavit1]

on macOS catalina, a bug shows saying

IDB is required to use Flipper with iOS devices. It can be installed from https://github.com/facebook/idb and configured in Flipper settings. You can also disable physical iOS device support in settings. Current setting: /usr/local/bin/idb-companion isn't a valid IDB installation.

even though I installed via the brew instructions

brew tap facebook/fb
brew install idb-companion

[jknoxville]

You need to point flipper to your fb-idb installation, not your idb-companion installation.

This one: https://github.com/facebook/idb#idb-client

[hsavit1]

Gotcha, thanks @jknoxville . Installing via pip seemed to help

I am having a tough time linking to flipper. My idb-installation seems to live at ~/usr/local/Cellar/idb-companion

After sticking that path + the 1.0.14 extention into my Flipper settings, it still reads

Current setting: ~/usr/local/Cellar/idb-companion/1.0.14 isn't a valid IDB installation

I've tried with and without the 1.0.14

[Cordobo]

If you have to install the idb-client via pip3 and the --user flag like pip3 install --user fb-idb, the IDB binary location is as follows:

/Users/<your_username>/Library/Python/<python_version>/bin/idb

/Users/johndoe/Library/Python/3.8/bin/idb

[a-eid]

just do which idb and you should find out where it's installed.

[LorandP]

What worked for me was to:

• pip3.11 install fb-idb
• which idb
• inside Flipper change the path of the installed idb

[sLurPPPeRsTaR]

If you have to install the idb-client via pip3 and the --user flag like pip3 install --user fb-idb, the IDB binary location is as follows:

/Users/<your_username>/Library/Python/<python_version>/bin/idb

/Users/johndoe/Library/Python/3.8/bin/idb

you save me =)