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How to manually install iPhone packages

December 20th, 2008
Here is a the manual way to install .deb files from Cydia. This is handy if you want to revert back to an older version of an application:
1) SSH into your iPhone the .deb file var/root/
2) Start MobileTerminal and type:
su
- enter your password
- type
dpkg -i /var/root/<deb file name>
3) check permissions of your newly installed App and Respring/Restart
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