Installer.app beta for iPhone: Install, update iPhone apps over Wi-Fi

All sorts of interesting iPhone apps have sprouted up these past few weeks, but unless you're checking out our own Erica Sadun's excellent work with iPhone apps, they can sometimes be hard to find or install. While Apple wants us to keep twiddling our thumbs in anticipation for true apps to come to the iPhone (perhaps they are just waiting for Leopard), a new Installer.app (of course, a beta) could help simplify things by acting as an iPhone app management hub. Installer.app can install and update a good handful of iPhone apps (with more to come, I'm sure) over Wi-Fi, and uninstall them as well.

Of course, you'll need to use ~~iFuntastic~~ command line tools like iPHUC or something similar to get Installer.app onto your phone in the first place, but after that it seems like this is a good solution for endowing your iPhone with new apps until Apple opens things up.

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Source: http://iphone.nullriver.com/beta.html

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Mark

How can I uninstall safari from my iphone? I do want to keep email.

November 01 2007 at 5:16 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Mark

How can uninstall safari my iphone? I do want to keep email.

November 01 2007 at 10:15 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

joe

I just got a new iphone. It has firware 1.11 and installer 3.0 so i guess im pretty up to date right?
Now my installer is telling me that i have an update, i have no clue on what to do.
Should i update?
somebody please help.

October 30 2007 at 11:27 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

rich

god maybe i am slow but i cant download the installer.app from the new website. can someone please email me the steps. i havent messed with my phone at all with software. i run a pc my email is rvogt91@aol.com please help the learning. rich

September 02 2007 at 6:02 AM Report abuse Permalink +1 rate up rate down Reply

shifty

Anyone have instructions for someone only mildly versed in Terminal? I can hack the phone using iPHUC, but I must be doing something wrong when trying to install the Installer.app as it always gives me an error message. Please post a guide a guide if possible. TY

August 21 2007 at 5:13 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Federico Chieli

Yesterday around midnight Eastern time I was able to see a bunch of of new stuff in my iPhone using Installer.app.
I'm talking Pearl, Apache , Ruby etc...good STUFF!
This morning all that good stuff no longer shows up on Installer.app
Any idea why ?
THANKS!

August 17 2007 at 4:19 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Pete

I can't seem to get it to be visible in the SpringBoard... it is in the filesystem as Install.app in the /Applications directory but it's not on the SpringBoard. anyone know what's going on here?

August 14 2007 at 12:18 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Tom Robinson

This is nice. I was getting tired of stumbling through manually updating apps using MobileTerminal on the run...

1. Find url of latest version of NES.app MobileTerminal.app and memorize or write it down
3. curl -O http://url/filename.tar.gz
4. tar xzvf filename.tar.gz
5. mv whatever.app /Applications/.

Pain in the ass... this is much better :-)

August 13 2007 at 3:42 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

brianmw

Errors
Error during install script: Trying to install 0.97 update
Error during Uninstall script: Trying to uninstall NES.app 0.31
However I was able to install the VRecord .01
Rebooted iphone and still have these issues, any Ideas
Thanks

August 12 2007 at 11:52 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

cameron

@22

I installed it. Works great. Very polished as far as I can tell. I installed the binkits (now called BSD Subsystem). I've also installed, and uninstalled MobileMoney

It even updates itself. It's gone from v85 this morning to v97!

August 12 2007 at 9:31 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply