Help/Support [Newbie] Self-made .deb iFile installing error

Bamboozeld · August 8, 2016

Hi, I'm a completely newbie to the jailbreak-tweak-developing community. I'm following some instruction videos on Youtube and have successfully made a tweak (WelcomeMe clone). I made the tweak on Mac and compile the .deb file on the Mac. However, when I transfer my .deb file to iPhone and use iFile to install the package it printed out this error and I can't install the package:

dpkg-deb: file `BootNotify.deb' contains ununderstood data member data.tar.xz , giving up

dpkg: error processing BootNotify.deb (--install):

subprocess dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile returned error exit status 2

Errors were encountered while processing:

BootNotify.deb

Finished with result code:256

I have read this topic: How to Easily Fix Old .deb Hacks on iOS 9.3 and Higher - Error 256 Fix! But it doesn't fix anything.

I think, I think the problem is in the Makefile: http://i.imgur.com/EvlIkRM.png?1

Any suggestion?

Thank you very much!

Updated August 8, 2016 by Bamboozeld

Rook · August 10, 2016

@@Bamboozeld

In your theos installation, go to: $THEOS/makefiles/package/deb.mk

and replace this:

 $(ECHO_NOTHING)COPYFILE_DISABLE=1 $(FAKEROOT) -r dpkg-deb -b "$(THEOS_STAGING_DIR)" "$(_THEOS_DEB_PACKAGE_FILENAME)" $(STDERR_NULL_REDIRECT)$(ECHO_END)

With this:

$(ECHO_NOTHING)COPYFILE_DISABLE=1 $(FAKEROOT) -r dpkg-deb -Zgzip -b "$(THEOS_STAGING_DIR)" "$(_THEOS_DEB_PACKAGE_FILENAME)" $(STDERR_NULL_REDIRECT)$(ECHO_END)

Done.

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