How To Manually Install Cydia After iOS 8 – 8.1 Pangu Jailbreak

The Pangu team today released an iOS 8 – iOS 8.1 jailbreak for iPhone 4s and up, all iPads and iPod touch 5G. The jailbreak took everyone by surprise, including Cydia creator Jay Freeman aka saurik, who couldn’t update Cydia in time.

The good news is that saurik has, in a short period of time, managed to update Cydia for iOS 8 and iOS 8.1, and has pushed its .deb file to his website for manual download. He has also handed the Cydia installation package to the Pangu team, who should hopefully release a quick update to Pangu, with Cydia.

Here’s what he said:

I’ve given a new version of Cydia Installer in the form of a standard jailbreak bootstrap for inclusion in a new version of their jailbreak. I’ve also pushed the .deb of the iOS 8 version of Cydia to apt.saurik.com for manual download, but not yet to my repository. A lot of thanks goes out to limneos, who tested the new build for me, as I was at an airport (and now am frantically typing this message while they figure out how to retract the jetbridge from the plane I’m on that is about to take off).

How to manually install Cydia on iOS 8 after Jailbreaking using Pangu iOS jailbreak tool :

Step 1: Jailbreak iOS 8 , Then Open Pangu app

Step 2: Install OpenSSH on your device from the Pangu app

Step 3: Download and install CyberDuck SFTP client and if you’re on Windows, download and install WinSCP.

Step 4: First open up Settings on your iPhone and tap on “WiFi”. Then tap on the “i” in order to find out what your IP address is. You’ll need to keep this screen up to revert back to.

Step 5: Launch CyberDuck and connect to your iOS device’s IP address

  To Connect , enter ther Following Details :

•  Host: The IP address from your iPhone
•      Username: root
•      Password: alpine
•      Port: 21 or 22, use whichever one works.

Step 6: Download the needed Cydia files, and place them on your iOS device via CyberDuck

Note :

• Once you’re logged in, we need to go to the folder where we put the deb files. So type this:
• “cd /var/root/Media/Cydia/AutoInstall/” and hit enter. Now we’re in the folder so we can install the deb files. 

Step 7: Click Command→ Terminal, and type restart or reboot and click Send. This will reboot your iOS device.

Upon reboot, you should see the Cydia icon on your Home screen. Launch Cydia to initialize and enjoy your new jailbroken iPhone with Cydia!

What do you think? Did this work for you? How does it feel to have Cydia running on iOS 8.1? 

[Source - iDownloadBlog ]