Installation without installer

[Rekoil]

I would like a way to install Cydia without having to install installer. One possible way I was thinking of was bundling everything in an App called CydiaInstaller?.app which would when run copy everything to the right places (coreutils and friends), extract Cydia.app and then respring. Giving you detailed information of what's going on in the process. After that it could maybe delete itself to save space.

For it to truly replace Installer this is absolutely necessary... and I for one definitely want that.

[Nicolas]

Heck I'm even tempted to mark it major.

[Rekoil]

Replying to Nicolas:

Heck I'm even tempted to mark it major.

Haha, it's definitely not major lol.

[jamesglanville]

How about modifying the 1.1.3 soft upgrade? This would leave no traces of installer, and would be very easy to do. From an I recall, it could be done with a change in the upgrade shell script.

[gaarder]

Can Cydia be added into iPlus as a payload? Well this way iPlus does not need to install BSD Subsystem by default and it can also do the filesystem patch at the same time.

[gaarder]

Okay I've done it myself for upgrading my phone to 1.1.4: I have made a payload.zip with Telesphoreo and Cydia instead of BSD Subsystems. Throughout the installation there may be alert saying your iPhone is running out of space that you can safely ignore: there's just enough space on the device to finish the installation and it will automatically make spaces in the iPhone.

To be more precise, it does the followings: Add the following packages: - Cydia Packager (apt-get front-end) - Telesphoreo (open-source community based BSD Subsystem replacement) - Installer - Community Sources - Fake BSD subsystem - OpenSSH - VT-100 - Summerboard themes directory fix (installation issues) - Relocates Directories

http://www.mediafire.com/?0eojxvyydkz

(remove the dots from the link)

[gaarder]

*Cydia *Telesphoreo *Installer *Community Sources *Fake BSD subsystem *OpenSSH *VT-100 *Summerboard themes directory fix (installation issues) *Relocates Directories

[gaarder]

The payload.zip posted above is for iPlus 1.2 only. For the new iPlus 2.0 someone needs to convert the do_payload.sh into 2.0 format. And yet with the new iPlus 2.0 architecture I doubt that the Telesphoreo package will fit into the iPhone together with the iPlus components...

[saurik]

I now support (and actually have for the last couple weeks, but forgot about this ticket) the following two URLs for this purpose:

http://apptapp.saurik.com/com/saurik/Packager-1.x.tgz (iPhone 1.1.x) http://apptapp.saurik.com/com/saurik/Packager-2.x.tgz (iPhone 1.2/2.x)

These URLs will always be symlinks to the current version of the software (well, or 302 redirects, but will definitely work).

You can also now install Cydia via a couple of the Jailbreak tools, including iLibertyX.