Saturday, August 18, 2012

Manually install/remove iPhone software

If you get a chance to download ipa file but don't know how to install it to your iPhone, iPad? Here are some tips:

INSTALL MANUALLY
1/ Using Installous:
- Download your desired ipa file (or ssh to your iPhone)
- In case if you download directly on your Safari, you can use iFile to move it to Installous folder (/private/var/mobile/Documents/Installous/Downloads)
- Open Installous then install it

2/ Using  dpkg -i to install your application (*.deb file)

UNINSTALL MANUALLY

1/ SSH to your mobile phone
2/ Delete your application under folder: /var/stash/Applications/<application name>
3/ And/Or delete your application under folder /private/var/mobile/Applications/<application id/code>
This is a bit hard for you to know which application id/code folder belongs to which application, so you basically have to go in that folder and find <application name>.app folder that equivalent to you application name (you have to guess and make sure correct folder yourself)

Detail example:

1/ How to find your application folder?
Change to default application folder: cd /private/var/mobile/Applications/<application id/code>
Find your application folder that you wish to delete: ls -R | grep 


Another way is using SBSettings\System Wide Options\App Folders, then select your application to see it folder

2/ Delete application: rm -fR /private/var/mobile/Application/<application id/code>

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