If you recently updated to iPhone 3.0 and jailbreaked your device, im sure you noticed that some apps from Cydia are not working for you. First you need to understand that some apps were not updated for OS 3.0 yet , some apps are not fully functional and some apps work. Check the list here . But some of the apps that should work, still dont work on your device. There is a fix for that, but first you need to understand why it doesent work:
Many apps require root access and use a trick that involves the dirname command. This command was not present in some older packages in Saurik’s older repository. Saurik set up a newer version of his repository for 3.0 (which will merge back in to the trunk soon). The point is, many of you may have his older repository instead due to one of these reasons:
- You used an early Icy without its essential updates that do not fix saurik’s repo.
- You used apt backup to restore your packages and it restored the old repository.
- You did not accept some essential updates.
- Some other thing that I am not aware of. But the cause is most likely failing dirname command.
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