If your tired of reinstalling your apps after Jailbreak Look Here

[Cowboy]

This is a little thing i found on the internet that helped me out so here ya'll go
To save your Cydia packages:
Open Your Mobile Terminal on your iDevice (you can get it from Cydia)
Enter this command: “dpkg –get-selections> installed-apps.txt“ or some say have to use “dpkg --get-selections>installed-apps.txt“
Now we have created the Cydia app list file which called “installed-apps.txt” in “ / var / mobile “
You are done, use your favorite SFTP client (Cyberduck (Mac OS X) or WinSCP (Windows) to SHH into your device).
Reinstalling the packages installed
After you reinstall your Cydia and Terminal, type these commands in Terminal (the file installed-apps.txt must be submitted prior to / var / mobile)
su
Your_password (default is alpine)
dpkg -set-selections <installed-apps.txt
apt-get dselect-upgrade
and if you encounter problems:
” apt-get dselect-fix-missing-upgrade “
Cydia automatically reinstall all your packages.

This makes it nice and easy and best part its free.

[Coop]

Hey Westerman, this looks like a really nice free tip on how to use the debian package manager for restoring Cydia apps. Thanks for posting.

BTW, I had to use double dashes before the first argument to get it to create a list of installed apps, as follows:
“dpkg --get-selections>installed-apps.txt“
Yours was probably a double dash as well when you created the post, but somehow the font was changed to a single long dash after posting. Just thought I'd add this for clarity.

Haven't had a chance to try out the rest of it to see if it will actually re-install my apps, but I'll keep this filed away for future use in case I have to restore my iOS FW.

[Cowboy]

No problem hit the button