Install a Custom Theme using OpenWRT Image Builder

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Hi,

I been building my own firmware using OpenWRT Image builder. I'm trying to install luci-theme-argon from here https://github.com/jerrykuku/luci-theme-argon.

I can install this on OpenWRT using SSH but I like to pre-compile the theme using Image Builder. Any idea how to achieve this?

Here is the command that I usually use to build firmware

make -j4 image PROFILE=xiaomi_mi-router-4c PACKAGES="luci luci-app-upnp luci-app-sqm luci-app-ddns luci-app-wireguard luci-app-adblock stubby tcpdump-mini nano wget ca-certificates ca-bundle xl2tpd"

Also, how can I remove the default theme while compiling firmware?
Thanks

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You can grab the IPK from github and put it into packages/ folder of the image builder and it will be available to be included in the PACKAGES variable.

You can remove the packages by prepending them with a minus sign in the PACKAGES variable as well: PACKAGES="luci-theme-argon -luci-theme-openwrt".

Most of the themes I've had experience with activate themselves on install, not sure if argon does.

PS. You use the term pre-compile, which is what people normally use when talking about SDK, not image builder, but given the scope of your thread, I assumed you still meant Image Builder, not SDK.

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I'm using Image Builder, however, I'm not seeing any package folder here.

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that package is not in default repositories, so you need to download the package file and put it in a folder, then add that folder to repository list of image builder before you can add it

see the docs

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Thanks. So I created a directory called packages like
/root/openwrt-imagebuilder-ramips-mt76x8.Linux-x86_64/packages
and added this on repo file like
src custom file:///root/openwrt-imagebuilder-ramips-mt76x8.Linux-x86_64/packages

and it worked! Thanks again.

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