Installing an IPA on a jailbroken device w/o iTunes

[Navan Chauhan]

Tested on: iOS6 (should work with others too)
Pre-requisites:
You must have the following installed on your jb device:

1. AppSync
2. ipainstaller

SSH METHOD

Pre-Requisites for this step:

• If you have a Mac or run any Linux/Unix based Distro then you don't need to install anything
• If you have a Windows system install PuTTY and PuTTY SCP

Steps:

• On the device you wish to install the IPA, go to Settings>WiFi>Click on the connected wifi name>Note Down the ip address, it'll be in the format of 192.168.x.x (replace x.x with your values)

For Unix/Linux users (This includes Mac users)
Presuming the IPA is stored in the Downloads folder, run the following commands

1. Fire up the terminal (Mac users, search for terminal in the spotlight search)
2. scp ~/Downloads/YOUR_IPA_FILE.ipa root@192.168.x.x:/var/mobile/Documents
3. (The password is alpine <The password won't be shown while typing> )
4. Then, enter these commands
5. ssh root@192.168.x.x (Enter the password)
6. cd /var/mobile/Documents
7. ipainstaller YOUR_IPA_FILE.ipa

Your Application would be on the home screen now

For Windows Users:
Assuming you have correctly installed PuTTY SCP ( Follow all the steps written in this https://it.cornell.edu/managed-servers/transfer-files-using-putty )

Copy the IPA to C:
open CMD
pscp c:\YOUR_IPA_NAME.ipa root@192.168.x.x:/var/mobile/Documents (password is alpine)
Start PuTTY
enter the IP address in the hostname
user as root
password as alpine
Click Open/Start/Run
Click Yes
now enter the following command
cd /var/mobile/Documents
ipainstaller YOUR_IPA_NAME.ipa

Your Application would be on the home screen now


I'll update the guide with other methods soon

 

[Cipher]

Nice! you should add using ifunbox or itools as methods too!

 

[animeking9901]

I have the ipa installer gui tweak and use ifile web server to get the file there. Just a alternative combo for those who dont like command line

 

[Ripo]

Please explain how to get

1. AppSync
2. ipainstaller

 

[uig200]

There is an easier way to do it via USB:
On Linux or MacOs:
you can install IPAs with
"deviceinstaller -i your_file.ipa"

uninstall with
"ideviceinstaller -U full_path_to_app", for example "ideviceinstaller -U com.sygic.europe"

you can see all installed packages with
"deviceinstaller -l"

To make this work you also need Appsync Unified on your device that you can get here: http://cydia.angelxwind.net.