UPD faster & little cleaner pkg installer based on yan0

[bragon]

Dear All,

find an updated version of yan0 pkg installation script that allows installation of non signed application on ezx platforms. What I did is to clean up a little the script and make it faster by avoiding the unnecessary testing of the pkg file format (i.e. tar.gz or .tar) through the use of its magic. I added my ezxpopup touch for a popup notification of the start of the install and completion.
This version for rokre6 is the same as for a1200 firmwares r541 and r532l4.
For the installation just remove (and backup!?) on your (micro)sd card the .system directory and in place untar the attached file.

Enjoy!

UPDATE: new version v1_2 of the installer implementing the following changes:
- fix automatic kill of am (application manager) at the end of the installation so that you do not need to restart the phone to see the icon (thanks clovis to spot out the error)

Attached also is the new mpkg.lin script that should replace the /mmc/mmca1/.system/QTDownLoad/mpkg/mpkg.lin one if you want to avoid reinstallation of all your apps!

Note on uninstall: it seems that the latest firmware do not offer the possibility to uninstall the pkg: it appears not related to yan0 script or my adaptation.

[DAGr8]

Wait , can I just install over the old one I had ?

[bragon]

DAGr8, simple answer: no it is not something you want since it will overwrite your installed applications database

[DAGr8]

DAGr8, simple answer: no it is not something you want since it will overwrite your installed applications database

Well sorry to expose my ignorance here, but If I remove the .system folder I will lose my apps anyways wont I ?

I will follow instructions and see what it does ...

[knot2keen]

im having trouble getting my rokr with the .o8p firmware to load mpkg installer the icons there but it tells me "invalid file application"

[DAGr8]

DAGr8, simple answer: no it is not something you want since it will overwrite your installed applications database

Well sorry to expose my ignorance here, but If I remove the .system folder I will lose my apps anyways wont I ?

I will follow instructions and see what it does ...

Well As I taught If I replace my .system folder I lost all my apps , So what I did was overwrite the mpkg ( actualy delete and extract there ) and it works perfectly.
When I install a program I see the pop up and the Icon changed to the new one

[yaohan201]

thanks bargon,,i just updated the version,,but now i want to know how
can i uninstall pkg software, i used yan0's mpkg version before this,when
i want to uninstall pkg,yan0"s mpkg will pop up a msg"********,,delete yes to uninstall pkg and delete no to let pkg run",,wait for your answer,,thanks

[bragon]

yes I know that uninstall does not work but seems that the yan0 code was suffering the same effect (at least in the version I downloaded) could someone please post the version from yan0 that is allowing uninstall for rokre6? Note that the code from yan0 is working but kind of cryptic...
In next post I will post a new minor release of mpkg.

[bragon]

Concerning the lack of uninstall I think that it is related to the Attribute of the application as declared into the /mmc/mmca1/.system/java/CardRegistry file and has nothing to do with yan0 script. Before for A1200 R532 vanilla firmware the value declared was 2 now it is 4. Reverting to 2 or other values (5 enabling uninstall but not execution) doesn't help. So we will have to bare with this lack of uninstall I am afraid...

[DAGr8]

Well you can always edit your registry ....

wich is what I did .. Or if it doesnt work , just go in the directory where you have the yano version installed delete its content and place the content of the new mpkg , this is what I did , and it works perfect .. these should be the instructions to avoid having 2 instance of mpkg ..