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Questions tagged [opkg]

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How do I upgrade all of my installed packages in OpenWRT?

I'm just wondering what is the equivalent of apt-get upgrade apt upgrade yum update with OpenWRT or LEDE?
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How to know disk space occupied by packages in OpenWrt?

I am trying to configure OpenWrt on my device and got out of space. I was downloading some tooling packages. Now how can I determine their weights so that decide what to uninstall? Is it possible to display the size of installed packages with OPKG?
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How to install compiler tools with opkg on MIPS CPU architecture

I just bought a set top box (digital reciever - Vu+ Solo2) which runs Linux, and would like to compile some C software on it. It uses OPKG as the package manager. I executed opkg update and: root@vusolo2:~# opkg install gcc Unknown package…
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OpenWrt (Chaos Calmer 15.05.1): `opkg install -d ram` is failing

When I try to install python-xml using opkg install python-xml -d ram It goes through the following steps: Installing... [WORKS] Downloading... [WORKS] Configuring... [FAILS] The "configuring" step fails with errors... grep:…
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How to get the version info of opkg package without installing it?

I want to write a script to check the version of a opkg package before installing it. I've done a lot of research and found a few answer on dpkg system but none on opkg system. I've tried opkg info, opkg status, opkg list but they all seem to work…
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How can a package's license be determined using OPKG package manager?

OPKG is used as the package manager in an embedded Linux system. I would like to be able to determine the license of a package prior to installing the package. Is there a simple way to achieve this through the package manager (or related utility…
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List packages available for upgrade with APT?

After I run apt-get update, I would like to get a list of all packages that can be upgraded. With opkg I usually to this:: opkg list_upgradable How can I do this with APT?
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Search with opkg

Trying to search with opkg command in my Onion Omega system: opkg search vim opkg search v* Got nothing in output in all cases. What I do wrong?
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OPKG : nothing provides requested

I have a custom Linux distro built with Yocto/Poky on branch thud. I'm using opkg as software to manage my packages updates on my embedded systems. I have hundreds of systems running and wanted to upgrade an important package on them…
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Opkg, update dual r/o rfs's under aufs

Using Opkg I'd like to update two different Linux 3.16 based RFS's partitions. They are both mounted read only & there is a data partition, which via aufs, does the write overlays. How can I do an upgrade to each partition such that I get an atomic…
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How to get the installation progress of opkg install?

I'm writing an application that installs an upgrade using opkg packaging system. Is there a way to get the overall progress so that I can make a progress bar?
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How to schedule a task in a shell script that runs as soon as the all the ancestors of current shell die?

I'm making a opkg package for a software update. This package require a reboot after installation and needs some work done after the next reboot. I added a shutdown -h now in postinst script but it seems to shutdown too early and interrupts the opkg…
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Install brctl for OpenWrt - which package?

I'm getting an error in OpenWRT Attitude Adjustment that says: -ash: brctl: not found when I run brctl addif br-lan mesh0 I tried: opkg update opkg install brctl But I got this error: Unknown package brctl Is brctl in a larger package? If so,…
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Help with apt-get on non-internet connected device

I have a Linux based OS running on an embedded piece of hardware. According to the manufacturer of this device, it's based on the Ångström distribution. This device cannot be connected to the internet, however I need to install the ntp package on it…
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opkg can't find apache

I'm trying to get a LAMP stack running on my BeagleBone Black, but I'm getting foiled early: opkg can't seem to find the apache2 package. According to the Angstrom page, it should exist: http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/repo/ (search "apache"…
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