[installer] can't fix the "main script error"

**bootleg** · 03-03-2008 02:43 AM

i've searched and followed everything i could find on this site, mod my ifone. and hack the ifone. i ihad a 1.0.2 phone. restored to itunes came away with the 1.0.4 and current baseband. i used ziphone and everything unlocked fine and jailbroke although somehow it jailed itself. i fixed that by jailbreaking via independence. i was able to install the installer through comm sources and install maybe 10 programs. somehow (and perhaps it was a utility i installed) but i started to get the main script execution failed message. i used terminal and followed two methods...the one using wget (which could never be found) and then another u
that used commands that consisted of "private" before Applications. i re-jailbraked, rebooted, eveything short of a restore but nothing seems to clear my problem. the rest of the on t-mobile the installed programs work fine. but i can no longer get any program to run. i was able via transmit to add summerboard themes and ebooks but nothing else.

i'd appreciate any help i can get. believe me i've googled and searched all the forums and nothing has work for me on my macbook pro

thanks

alan

**)law(** · 03-03-2008 02:48 AM

hmm try restoring and jailbreaking with the last ziphone for 1.1.3 then right after jailbreak with new ziphone, also becareful what you install because somethings break file paths

**bootleg** · 03-04-2008 12:36 AM

found this and it worked perfectly:

You can download installer app directly by downloading it from http://repository.apptapp.com/packag.../Installer.zip and then copy to your Applications dir using your SCP app of choice, but you’ll need to ssh into your phone afterward and do:

Code:
cd /Applications
rm -rf Installer.app
unzip Installer.zip
chmod +s Installer.app/Installer
chown -R root:wheel Installer.app
chmod 4755 /Applications/Installer.app/Installer
rm Installer.zip
reboot

**jorn** · 03-04-2008 01:14 AM

-sh: chown: command not found

WHat?!

Former Bender · 03-04-2008 04:46 AM

You must install the BSD Subsystem to use chown (part of it).

Or download chown from here and install it manually before installing Installer.

http://wickedpsyched.com/iphone/unixtools

Put it in /usr/bin/