Help/Support How to disable the "Half-installed Package" popup from Cydia?

Rook · January 14, 2015

Hello everyone!

I've installed a package that hasn't installed completely and it works but everytime I open Cydia, I get the "Half-installed Package" popup and I wanted to ask how you get rid of that? Make it look like everything is installed properly?

Half-Installed Package

When the shell scripts associated with packages fail, they are left in a bad state known as either half-configured or half-installed. There errors don't go away and instead continue to cause issues. These scripts can be deleted and the packages forcibly removed.

I've managed to remove the re-installation (/var/lib/dpkg/info/ rename the .plist and postinst concerning the package) part of the package whenever you try to install another package but I can't find how to remove the popup.

Thanks!

castix · January 14, 2015

clear your installing queue

Insidious · January 14, 2015

good question but idk how to remove the pop up

castix · January 14, 2015

good question but idk how to remove the pop up

why do you reply then

Rook · January 14, 2015

Solved:

I had already solved the problem by going to /var/lib/dpkg/info/ and finding the com.author.package.plist & com.author.package.postinst and renaming them to something like com.author.package.postinst.bak. The popup was still there because I forgot to close Cydia from multi-tasking and reopening it. Everything works fine now. No popup & no dpkg trying to reinstall a half-installed package.

MrHani3 · September 20, 2018

@DiDA what if you don't have "com.author.package.plist & com.author.package.postinst" these files?

IamAamirPOY · September 22, 2018

On 9/20/2018 at 12:19 PM, MrHani3 said:

@DiDA what if you don't have "com.author.package.plist & com.author.package.postinst" these files?

Then just search that tweak name in filza that creating problem and not uninstalling and delete all the file which come up in the search realted to that tweak then open cydia and installed then click on that tweak then modify and remove it form there it will be removed