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accidentally deleted cydia
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your best option really is to back up and restore and rejailbreak, just in case something goes awry. But i have not used jailbreakme so i am not sure, this is is recommended when using redsn0w or pwnagetool or other tools.
Well you COULD:
find the mobileterminal.app from the xsellize repo
SSH it into your applications folder
run it
"su root" then type in your password
"apt-get install" (run that command)
"apt-get update"(also run that command)
Then Cydia SHOULD be there.
find the mobileterminal.app from the xsellize repo
SSH it into your applications folder
run it
"su root" then type in your password
"apt-get install" (run that command)
"apt-get update"(also run that command)
Then Cydia SHOULD be there.
Since Cydia can't be deleted like a standard iPhone app, it's hard to imagine how this can be done accidentally.
Oh, just like some 'accidentally' upgrade to the beta of 4.1 yesterday. Trust me I know..
The only ways that I know of are manually through SSH or by using CyDelete, but that app forces you to uncheck an option protecting cydia, so that wouldn't really be an accident.
I have read the thread, but it offers three totally different methods with no confirmation that one is right and the others wrong.
1. "just go to jailbreakme.com and rejailbreak (it will just install cydia again)" seems easiest but not sure if it is detrimental.
2. "your best option really is to back up and restore and rejailbreak, just in case something goes awry.". Also would seem easy, but conflicts with the third recommendation.
3. "SSH" and command line prompts but I am unfamiliar with SSH'ing on running commands on terminal etc. If he doesn't have Cydia any longer, how does one acess and use these methods?
1. "just go to jailbreakme.com and rejailbreak (it will just install cydia again)" seems easiest but not sure if it is detrimental.
2. "your best option really is to back up and restore and rejailbreak, just in case something goes awry.". Also would seem easy, but conflicts with the third recommendation.
3. "SSH" and command line prompts but I am unfamiliar with SSH'ing on running commands on terminal etc. If he doesn't have Cydia any longer, how does one acess and use these methods?
Ha, are you even on a previously jailbroken iPhone? Are you actually logging in as the "root" user via ssh? It's not rocket science, but then again you did manage to somehow uninstall Cydia.
This will install Cydia if it's not already:
apt-get install cydia
Type this,
dpkg --get-selections | grep saurik
it will display something like:
com.saurik.iphone.cve-2010-1797 install
The one with the cve in it is the package to uninstall for the PDF fix:
Uninstall it with dpkg
dpkg -r com.saurik.iphone.cve-2010-1797