What is saurik.list and who are these cruel gods?

[metaclam]

Cydia got borked for me and I tried all the usual methods, including deleting various files and reinstalling cydia from saurik's version 1.1 .deb, rebooting etc. It worked a while but then became even more borked.

I poked more deeply and found that the file "saurik.list" was apparently corrupted, with no text data. (apparently a binary file? anyway garbage text)

I renamed it saurik.list.bk and Cydia immediately worked without rebooting and apparently no ill effects!

to be safe i found the saurik.list file from the .deb and put it back manually where it was supposed to be. the contents are:

# DO NOT EDIT | This is the story of a time long ago, A time of myth and legend, when the Earth was still young.
# The ancient gods were petty and cruel, and they plagued mankind with suffering and beseiged them with terrors.

Then I rebooted. Then Cydia was borked again until I deleted that file.

What gives?

How do I properly replace this file?

And why on earth is there not a built in way to cleanly reset Cydia, or a command line tool made (or endorsed) by saurik?? (I do have cyfix installed but did not use it in this case because it's not a particular repo but it was borked in general...)

[seann33uk]

well thats a new one.


There doesn't appear to be anything else special about this file that i can see..

Try doing a reinstall of cydia in app?

[metaclam]

I have reinstalled cydia twice, first from the 1.1 .deb file from saurik.com and second from within Cydia to 1.1.1. After doing that, again I had problems, and it wasn't until I deleted that saurik.list file that it worked a little better. It's still unusually slow (sometimes takes a minute or more to load the "manage" page) and glitchy (doesn't always recognize purchases, displays HTML offset to right...) Basically now it's sort of functional but something is amiss. And it only works without the saurik.list file!

[bsdaiwa]

Is there a way to completely remove Cydia and then reinstall it? I too am having problems and would like to try and "remove and reinstall" Cydia. Can anyone tell me how?

[area51crypto]

Is there a way to completely remove Cydia and then reinstall it? I too am having problems and would like to try and "remove and reinstall" Cydia. Can anyone tell me how?

Try this:

Open Mobile Terminal

type su

enter password (this will be alpine unless you have changed it)

type apt-get update

done

Let us know if this works for your problem.

[bsdaiwa]

Try this:

Open Mobile Terminal

type su

enter password (this will be alpine unless you have changed it)

type apt-get update

done

Let us know if this works for your problem.

Thanks for the response, I found and used the following commands in the order listed, and they seemed to fix my problem.

apt-get remove cydia

apt-get install cydia

apt-get update

[metaclam]

bsdaiwa: if you do that does the re-installed cydia recognize your currently installed packages?

area51: I had tried apt-get update initially and it got an error in "line 1" of one of the sources... that's when I deleted sources and then, saurik.list.

this question is still not answered and I even emailed saurik!

[bsdaiwa]

None of my installed aps were removed, even when I deleted the sources and ran both remove and install.

[metaclam]

sorry I wasn't asking if your installed apps were removed. I was asking whether when you removed and then re-installed cydia, it then still recognized which packages you had installed, or not?

[bsdaiwa]

sorry I wasn't asking if your installed apps were removed. I was asking whether when you removed and then re-installed cydia, it then still recognized which packages you had installed, or not?

Yes, it recognized all the Cydia apps that were installed prior to the removal and reinstall.