Tutorial How to download .deb files (tweaks) on the pc and install them on your iDevice

TimidNova · July 29, 2018

A pc (duh..)
WinSCP (get it here https://winscp.net/eng/index.php)
CyDownloader (get it down below)

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Electra jailbreak has it's bugs like any other jailbreak. One of them happens to be where cydia is breaking and not working. So today i will show you how to download .debs on the pc then install them on your device.

Ok now open CyDownloader and you should get this window

Now click on New Repo

I will be using the packix repo for the example (http://repo.packix.com). Type the repo you want to use. If you don't know it search a tweak made by them. Example: (insert tweak here) repo

Click ok and it will download the repo's tweaks so you can download them

In my case i wanted to download the Harlem Shake springboard tweak. Press the Download .deb button

It will ask you to choose a folder to install it in. I created a new folder called .deb files and installed it there. Once you do that it will never ask that again it will just install it there automaticlly

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Now on to the next part and this is where you will need WinSCP to install the tweak to your device. Open it up and login to your device through ssh and here's how.

^^^Host Name is gonna be your phones ip^^^

to find it go into the devices settings, go to wifi, and on the wifi your connected to you should see an i in a circle to the right. Tap that and you should see IP Address. that's your host name. For user name it's root and password alpine unless you have changed it

Once your connected to your device go to var/tmp don't worry about the /private it's always there

now move the .deb over to the directory. So just drag and drop the .deb into var/tmp and then click ok on the box that i circled. I suggest renaming the .deb to a smaller name for this next part

tap on the box that i circled

enter the command dpkg -i /tmp/insert.debhere. example: dpkg -i /tmp/HFdot.deb and press Execute (i renamed the deb cause it would be to long to put in there otherwise) To rename it all you have to do is right click the deb and click rename and type something simple for it

once it says Setting up that means it's done. Here's the proof it worked

i will go into f dots

CONGRATS YOU MADE IT THROUGH THE TUTORIAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

refer to this topic to see how to remove tweaks without cydia

Updated July 29, 2018 by TimidNova

Rook · July 29, 2018

Nice tutorial. Thank you for sharing.

xiaov · July 29, 2018

Nice tut @TimidNova

DoggyCrazy · July 29, 2018

can you install localapstore and stuff like tha?

TimidNova · July 29, 2018

1 minute ago, DoggyCrazy said:

can you install localapstore and stuff like tha?

yep

TimidNova · July 29, 2018

11 minutes ago, DiDA said:

Nice tutorial. Thank you for sharing.

i feel somewhat special now that you commented on my tut

DoggyCrazy · July 29, 2018

will this work on a iphone 7 running 11.4?

TimidNova · July 29, 2018

1 minute ago, DoggyCrazy said:

will this work on a iphone 7 running 11.4?

it will only work if your jailbroken

SoNisarg · July 29, 2018

ok

iGods · July 29, 2018

Great. Very detailed tutorial.

So you prefer to use this as a solution when your Cydia broke instead of fixing the issue? Tweaks will not work with this method if it has dependencies & you can't also install paid ones. There's a lot of fixes when you have issues with Cydia, a lot easier than to go through all this process everytime you install tweaks.