Hi,
I have an ipk file downloaded from my vpn provider website and I need to include it in my build, is it possible?
thanks
Hi,
I have an ipk file downloaded from my vpn provider website and I need to include it in my build, is it possible?
thanks
Not clear what you want to do, but you could add it to your backup archive, and restore it as needed. If you mean adding it to /rom
in a buildroot
, add it to /buildroot/files/pathto/your.ipk
I mean, Ive downloaded a package (ipk) from github and I would like to add it in my build when I compile it, ie: if luci-app-wireguard.ipk did not exist yet and I would like to add it for myself in my build.....?
Cause when I upload the ipk in LuCi web (software, upload package) when I update my build from master once a week, the the tab disappears in LuCi....I need to upload it again
anyway, with an ipk, I can't add it in menu config as luci-app, right?
Correct. If you have access to the source/Makefile, you can create a local fork that can be incorporated into your buildroot
, but with just the compiled .ipk
- no.
As a workaround, you could copy the .ipk
into ~/buildroot/files/root/your.ipk
. It will be populated into /root/your.ipk
during the build so you don’t need to DL it again. Then add opkg -d root install yourpackage
to etc/rc.local
.
did it but still not there after an update
root@OpenWrt:~# ls
luci-app-tgwireguard_1.0.2-1_all.ipk
root@OpenWrt:~# cd /etc
root@OpenWrt:/etc# cat rc.local
# Put your custom commands here that should be executed once
# the system init finished. By default this file does nothing.
#echo performance > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/policy0/scaling_governor; echo performance > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/policy1/scaling_governor
opkg -d /root/ install luci-app-tgwireguard_1.0.2-1_all.ipk
exit 0
root@OpenWrt:/etc#
Follow this section in the wiki https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-developer/toolchain/use-buildsystem#custom_files
Assuming you use the typical naming conventions for your buildroot host i.e. /home/user/openwrt
:
mkdir /home/user/openwrt/files
mkdir /home/user/openwrt/files/root
cp luci-app-tgwireguard_1.0.2-1_all.ipk /home/user/openwrt/files/root/
During your build, the luci-app-tgwireguard_1.0.2-1_all.ipk
will be incorporated into your sysupgrade.bin
and you will find the .ipk
on your router at /root/luci-app-tgwireguard_1.0.2-1_all.ipk
yes this is what I did and the file is there in root but this no tab in LuCi, I need to install it again
What happens if you run this on the command line?
root@OpenWrt:~# opkg -d /root/ install luci-app-tgwireguard_1.0.2-1_all.ipk
Collected errors:
* resolve_pkg_dest_list: Unknown dest name: `/root/'.
weird.....
My bad
opkg -d root install luci-app-tgwireguard_1.0.2-1_all.ipk
I can install it with that command but I just updated my build to see and still not there as a tab...
Did you update /etc/rc.local
to reflect the correction?
opkg -d root install luci-app-tgwireguard_1.0.2-1_all.ipk
Yes I did.
.
OK. Want to fill me in?
Still does not work about having the package installed after update
Works for me.
Details matter. Mind reading is not a skill I possess.
thanks anyway for your time
To my knowledge, the -d option in opkg is about the install destination dir, not about the .ipk location.
I would use absolute path.
opkg install /path/to/ipk/ipkname.ipk
I agree.
To my understanding the -d
option specifies the install destination filesystem set in /etc/opkg/conf
, and it expects to find the .ipk
in the same filesystem.
i.e. helloworld.ipk
resides on 1 of 4 usb partitions.
opkg -d mnt install helloworld
will locate/install the helloworld.ipk
to /mnt/usr/bin/helloworld
If I instead copy the .ipk
to the root fs and run opkg -d root install helloworld
it will locate/install the helloworld.ipk
to its expected location in /usr/bin/helloworld
.