Comments on: Installing Cydia over SSH

By: tonton22

tonton22 — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 07:01:25 +0000

Worked like charm, thanks a lot

By: Vaelek

Vaelek — Tue, 11 May 2010 00:17:05 +0000

Remove the quotes

By: Rushood

Rushood — Mon, 10 May 2010 23:04:03 +0000

/private/var/lib/apt/lists$ “dpkg -i cydia_1.0.3044-65_iphoneos-arm.deb”
-sh: line 33: “dpkg: command not found
/private/var/lib/apt/lists$ •dpkg -i essential_0-1_iphoneos-arm.deb cydia_1.0.2953-59_iphoneos-arm.deb; respring
-sh: line 35: •dpkg: command not found
2010-05-11 03:02:35.817 respring[428:903] 3.1.3
plz help

By: Vince

Vince — Tue, 04 May 2010 23:55:26 +0000

THANK YOU! Someone called me while I was updating the essential software on cydia and I guess it didn't install properly. This fixed it!

By: Disallusioned

Disallusioned — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 22:47:47 +0000

Everything went just as instructed but cydia still crahes right at it starting up

By: Vaelek

Vaelek — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 02:34:04 +0000

Brilliant!

By: Greg

Greg — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 01:46:11 +0000

I'm in a similar situation. the iphone has a VPN function. You need to sign up for a VPN (preferably L2TP) and set this up on your iphone. I've tried many but find 12vpn (www.12vpn) to be the most convenient as it allows several different protocols and unlimited changes between UK and US servers. Connect to the VPN before you download Cydia from blackrain and then also before you use Cydia as some of the repositories are also blocked.

By: none

none — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:43:22 +0000

Been having the same issue-Ok, so here's what i did. Went to my blackra1n app. Installed Rock, searched and installed Cydia installer and was able to open up Cydia after that. You can remove the Rock app directly from Cydia if you wish. Only thing is once you open up the manage folder in Cydia the installed packages don't show up but they still seem to be working fine on the springboard. Hope this helps

By: Vaelek

Vaelek — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 21:12:03 +0000

Without cydia, icy, or rock, there is no way to install openssh to be able to connect to it unfortunately. If you are not, I would try on wifi, it's possible at$t is blocking them now. If it still won't go, you may have to use redsn0w or pwnagetool

By: @gavcuk

@gavcuk — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:14:57 +0000

I have used Blackra1n to complete a tethered JB on my 3GS 3.1.2 but Cydia and Rock will not install (as either install and then respring the iPhone locks and then there is no app icon)

I cannot seem to connect to the iPhone using WinSCP, FileZilla or PuTTy using the ip address, port 22 and root/alpine. Am I missing something? I do not have open SSH as I've never managed to get Cydia installed.

By: Vaelek

Vaelek — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:28:04 +0000

If you had installed SSH you do not need mobileterminal to install Cydia. If you have not, then the plot thickens… If you jailbroke via blackra1n, I would try re-installing cydia from there first. If you used another method other than pwnagetool, you should be able to just re-run the jailbreak and in most cases it will repair whatever is causing Cydia to crash. Most people don't think of it, but if you can also install Cydia via RockApp if you have that as well. If none of those solutions work for you, unfortunately about your only option is going to be to start again.

By: stpidfck

stpidfck — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 07:58:12 +0000

ok, here's the deal, I messed up cydia AND i dont have mobile terminal. All the guides that I saw said you need cydia to install mobileterminal to install cydia. is there a way around this

By: Vaelek

Vaelek — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 15:38:03 +0000

Absolutely

By: @FitosMizah

@FitosMizah — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 09:39:06 +0000

I deleted Cydia using Cydelete because it could not load.Tried Blackra1n to reinstall Cydia-after re-springing, the Cydia icon does not appear but all apps I downloaded thru Cydia still present and working on my iPhone running 3.1.2 , Can I use Cyberduck to try to SSH and install Cydia? Thank you.

By: Vaelek

Vaelek — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 00:03:34 +0000

Sorry your comment seems to have fallen through the cracks. Have you worked out the problems?

By: Vaelek

Vaelek — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 00:02:49 +0000

Your comment seems to have gotten lost in the mix, sorry about that. Have you been able to get past this yet?

By: Vaelek

Vaelek — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 00:02:12 +0000

I've held off on responding because I've been trying to figure out a solution for you. I am not familiar with the methods you guys have to use to get around all the blocking, but for you I would probably recommend using redsn0w or pwnagetool instead of blackra1n.

By: Vaelek

Vaelek — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 01:58:27 +0000

Do you have syslog installed? If not I would either install it and then from an SSH session, before you launch Cydia, type 'tail -f -n 0 /var/log/syslog' and watch for something useful
or
Re-run redsn0w or reinstall it via blackra1n depending on how you jb'd

By: jujinz

jujinz — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 18:25:32 +0000

The files seem to have installed correctly after using the absolute path names like you suggested. Unfortunately Cydia still crashes.

(Reading database … 2908 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace essential 0-1 (using …/essential_0-1_iphoneos-arm.deb) …
Unpacking replacement essential …
Preparing to replace cydia 1.0.2953-59 (using …/cydia_1.0.2953-59_iphoneos-arm.deb) …
Unpacking replacement cydia …
Setting up essential (0-1) …
Setting up cydia (1.0.2953-59) …
2010-02-18 10:17:12.596 respring[293:903] 3.1.2

Looks like my problem runs deeper than just the Cydia app. I'll give redsn0w a try before I restore with my CustomISPW. Hopefully a re-run of the jailbreak will resolve the issue. I'm getting weary of restoring the entire phone as this will be the 4th time it's happened. Not sure why my phone is so unstable with the jailbreak. Maby I got a lemon…

Thanks SO much for your suggestions and timely response, I appreciate it.

By: jujinz

jujinz — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 16:49:55 +0000

Hello Vaelek,
Thank you for providing support for resurrecting Cydia. I've read through the blog comments trying to resolve this myself but my device is not responding as expected. It's likely that I'm blowing it somewhere along the way and any help would be greatly appreciated.

Here is my scenario:

• Installed SBSettings Vibrate Toggle through Cydia with no problems or errors.
• Tried the Toggle and realized that it's completely useless.
* Opened Cydia in an attempt to uninstall the Toggle.
* Cydia crashed identically to the way many others here have described:
Begins to load, shows default screen for half a second,
fails to load and snaps quickly back to the spring board

Here is what I've done to resolve the problem:

• Downloaded and unzipped the 2 deb files from your site.
essential_0-1_iphoneos-arm.deb
cydia_1.0.2953-59_iphoneos-arm.deb
• Uploaded both of them to /var/mobile via SSH (Cyberduck – A Mac SFTP Client)
• Opened the /var/mobile folder containing the newly uploaded files in an SSH session
• Copied the code string directly from your instructions
dpkg -i essential_0-1_iphoneos-arm.deb cydia_1.0.2953-59_iphoneos-arm.deb; respring
• Chose GO > SEND COMMAND from Cyberducks menu bar
• A window opened displaying a TERMINAL icon, input field and results pane.
• I pasted the code string into the command line input field and clicked SEND
• The sent command returned these errors in the results pane

dpkg: error processing essential_0-1_iphoneos-arm.deb (–install):
cannot access archive: No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing cydia_1.0.2953-59_iphoneos-arm.deb (–install):
cannot access archive: No such file or directory
Errors were encountered while processing:
essential_0-1_iphoneos-arm.deb
cydia_1.0.2953-59_iphoneos-arm.deb
2010-02-17 00:59:55.642 respring[527:903] 3.1.2

• The phone did a respring but Cydia still crashes

I'm doubtful this solution is going to work for me after reading how simple and effective it has been for others but like I said before, maby I'm missing something. Any obvious mistakes in my process that you can recognize?

SIDE NOTE:
You mentioned in one reply that the jailbreak can be, "re-run" using redsn0w. Will doing a re-run that way allow me to keep all of my jailbreak apps, tweaks and themes in tact? I've only used Pwnage Tool which requires a complete wipe and restore of the entire phone.
Thanks