Originally Posted by xstaticxgpx:
As i posted in the old homebrew thread, with a rooted pre you can...
Simply, use ar to extract the ipk - then extract the data.tar.gz, cd into the usr/palm/applications dir, then using your rooted pre with ssh and sftp, copy recursively the (in the case of the translator app) de.umass.translate directory to your pre's /usr/palm/applications directory.
There are many ways of installing on a rooted pre. I think what the community is after a way for homebrew to be sideloaded without rooting ones pre.