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HOW TO: Save and Reinstall A List of Your Cydia Apps

In case you upgraded your device to a newer version of iOS and want to keep your Cydia apps, themes, tweaks, package and etc from losing, here’s a few simple steps to save your Cydia apps list and reinstall it again to your device.

Save your Cydia apps:

  • Open Mobile Terminal (you can get it from Cydia)
  • Enter this command:  “dpkg-get-selections> installed-apps.txt
  • Now we have created the Cydia app list file which called “installed-apps.txt” in “ / var / mobile
  • You are done, use your favorite SFTP client (Cyberduck (Mac OS X) or WinSCP (Windows) to SHH into your device).

Reinstalling your Cydia apps again:
Now I will submit the file called installed-apps.txt” to “/ var / mobile“, after reinstalling Cydia and Terminal, type this commands:

  • su
  • Type your password (default password: alpine)
  • dpkg-set-selections
  • apt-get dselect-upgrade
  • If you found problems type this command: “apt-get dselect-fix-missing-upgrade
  • Now Cydia will automatically reinstall all your packages.

[via Kioskea]


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