[mdbsat]

thanks guy!!!! installing now.

[TriniBoi]

what if i wanna uninstall cydia? how would i go about that

[vinodis]

Excellent Saurik. You were already rocking with the Java for iPhone man. Now you are a Star!!

[aziatiklover]

awesome app

[buckles08]

thats hottttttttttttttttt

[chronzz]

how do we uninstall it? not that i want to, and whats with the fake bsd do i have to instal it or uninstall the bsd subsystem?

For now, just like the BSD Subsystem, you can only reinstall Cydia Packager, not uninstall. About the Fake BSD, I agree that it requires better explanation, and here it is:

Quite a few applications on Installer require the BSD Subsystem, Cydia Packager provides better versions of exactly the same files as BSD Subsystem, now if you start out fresh, and install Cydia without having BSD, Installer.app repos don't know that you have these files because BSD isn't installed, but you DO have these files because they came with Cydia. So in this situation, you would install Fake BSD in order to trick installer into thinking you have BSD, and allow applications that require it to install properly.

Note: If you have previously installed BSD Subsystem, you do NOT need Fake BSD, because Installer.app still thinks BSD is installed, and you're fine.

Also, do not reinstall or update BSD Subsystem after installing Cydia, as this will break Cydia, you will never need BSD again after installing it, so don't worry about it

I'd also like to point out that Cydia comes with a working 'passwd' utility, so you can now safely change your SSH password without breaking your phone!

[jatatla]

Incredible......Wonderfull.....Excellent....Marval ous.......Mindblowing....extraordinary and Awesome....Pl keep it up..........

Pl can somebody tell...does it conflict with INSTALLER,if both together..?
Thankx

[maritimeswimmer]

Thanks a lot Saurik I read your entire page and I am just amazed that in just one month you were able to make this happen you really deserve a Nobel price in that though! props for you mate and btw you and the developers have done much more for the iPhone than apple itself I trully salute you lads and I take my hat off for you,poetic Foley,cash,Ryan "take the plunge" Christopher expert in new firmware testings and the rest of the developers.

Apple should really think about hiring such incredible people like you,the dev team and zibri you lads are one of a kind!....

Cheers,eh!

Ps: btw if I want to uninstall Cydia how would I be able to do that,eh? I know If I do that I'll have to reinstall bsd subsystem again.

[jasonm253]

Originally Posted by francis

For now, just like the BSD Subsystem, you can only reinstall Cydia Packager, not uninstall. About the Fake BSD, I agree that it requires better explanation, and here it is:

Quite a few applications on Installer require the BSD Subsystem, Cydia Packager provides better versions of exactly the same files as BSD Subsystem, now if you start out fresh, and install Cydia without having BSD, Installer.app repos don't know that you have these files because BSD isn't installed, but you DO have these files because they came with Cydia. So in this situation, you would install Fake BSD in order to trick installer into thinking you have BSD, and allow applications that require it to install properly.

Note: If you have previously installed BSD Subsystem, you do NOT need Fake BSD, because Installer.app still thinks BSD is installed, and you're fine.

Also, do not reinstall or update BSD Subsystem after installing Cydia, as this will break Cydia, you will never need BSD again after installing it, so don't worry about it

I'd also like to point out that Cydia comes with a working 'passwd' utility, so you can now safely change your SSH password without breaking your phone!

I was going to ask a question about this and i appreciate the answer before asking man!

Cydia Packager does not conflict with Installer in any way or form. poetic_folly mentioned this in the original post, and I just want to make it clear, that there is no conflict between Installer and Cydia, both can run peacefully side by side.

One of the major advantages of Cydia, besides the superior GUI, is that it comes with a built-in extensive subsystem, a true subsystem ported directly from Darwin Mac OSX 10.5. Visit www.telesphoreo.org if you are interested.

I also suggest that, for those of you who are technically-minded, read some of the articles on www.saurik.com, where Saurik has written an extensive summary of his current iPhone projects (Telesphoreo and Cydia). The analysis is refreshingly extensive (warning: possible side-effects may include an overwhelming sense of enlightenment :P )

[saurik]

Originally Posted by lyxus

The bad thing is it cannot see which program has been already installed by installer.app

This is a known issue that is actually in the roadmap for implementation, and is likely to be implemented rather soon. I didn't anticipate actually having this much support for Cydia as a means of installing graphical applications this soon ;P. You will be seeing this as an update to Cydia (which you will of course get via Cydia) in a few days.

[buckles08]

hey

how do i add Sources to it, i read the Managing Sources from saurik.com, but still not quite get it , so pls help. and also when i try to install stuff from installer, i got Error :YOU MUST INSTALL BSD OR CYDIA FIRST ,message ,

@buckles08:

You cannot add Installer.app sources to Cydia, there is ongoing work to get more and more repositories Cydia compatible in the next few days.

That error message tells me 2 things:

1. Someone has taken the time and effort to include Cydia as an alternative to BSD as a requirement for their apps
2. Unfortunately, their check doesn't seem to be working.

EDIT:

The fix for your particular problem (until these checks are fixed etc) is to run this command in terminal:

ln -s /bin/chown /usr/bin/chown

[Outofscope]

Is there a description of Cydia compatible source format? Or can anyone give a working source URL?
Thanks!

UPDATE: I've already found out the answer - it's Debian APT format