Windows Packager - wpkg

A kind of dpkg-deb for Windows, completely written in C#.

Introduction

If you own a device running iOS and it's jailbroken, you'll know that additional software ("Tweak" or "Theme") is distributed through iOS specific APT repositories and are packaged as .deb files.

Unless you work within WSL, managing debian packages is a breeze. The only downside to WSL are its permission issues.

I wanted a WSL-free solution and that's how wpkg was born: A pain free dpkg-deb, completely written in C#, for the platform everyone is familiar with.

DISCLAIMER: It's not entirely dpkg-deb, to be clear. This utility was mainly designed to help and make (jailbroken) iOS development easier on Windows. However, you can still use it however you may please!

PLEASE READ THROUGH THE WIKI (HERE) TO UNDERSTAND ITS TRIGGERS

Features

• Creation of .deb files
• Extraction of .deb files
• Custom triggers
  • --theme to quickly create a skeleton base for creating themes
  • More can be added to the official wpkg! (To request, feel free to create an issue or just recompile it yourself!)

Installation Guide

--This is the recommended method so you can call it from anywhere. Else you'd have to add it to the Windows folder directly so it's visible globally--

1. Open a new Explorer Window, navigate to your Windows boot drive (commonly "C") and create a folder titled "_mytools". (The name is an arbitrary choice, just for good measure we keep it clear)
   • The full path at the end should look like C:\_mytools
2. Open the Start Menu and searh for env. It should suggest editing the environment variables.
3. Once the Menu opens, select Environment variables.
4. Under System variables, search for PATH and edit it.
5. Add a new Entry
   • An Entry in the PATH is always a path, so here our entry is C:\_mytools
6. Now that we have added our folder to the PATH, you can now just download it, move it to our "_mytools" folder and Ta-DA! It's now accessible from the commandline like any other tool!
7. Profit??

Download

! I CANNOT STRESS THIS ENOUGH: PLEASE READ THE WIKI IF YOU HAVE ANY ISSUES/ TROUBLES FIGURING OUT HOW THIS WORKS !

Link (stable release): HERE

Guide on commands: HERE

Thanks/ Credits

• F. Carlier for dotnet-packaging - This was a tremendously good resource to study!
• OpenGroup for the gool 'ol .ar and the necessary header
• MSDN for providing the best C# support
• ICShapCode for SharpZipLib - you guys rock!

License

This project is licensed under MIT.