Mercusys MR90x v1 openwrt opkg missing after update

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Hello, after attended update the opkg package is missing. How to get opkg without reflashing router?

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Linux version 6.6.58 (builder@buildhost) (aarch64-openwrt-linux-musl-gcc (OpenWrt GCC 13.3.0 r27935-bcd95cb9c4) 13.3.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.42) #0 SMP Mon Oct 28 13:01:52 2024

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manually unpack ipk (gz:ed + tar, if I remember correctly)

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What is the output of:

ubus call system board
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Kernel 6.6.58 means you're running SNAPSHOT. Do you have owut installed?

In that case, SSH into the router and run owut upgrade --add opkg.

What happened is that luci-app-opkg was renamed to luci-app-package-manager and opkg is not a dependency anymore, but a top level package and needs to be explicitly added in the list.

If you don't have owut, get a list of your packages and create a build on the Firmware Selector and install while keeping your configuration. You won't ose any data.

More info here: Owut: OpenWrt Upgrade Tool - #153 by efahl

Cheers!

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At first I want to thank you and all users at this thread who try to help me. no owut is not installed. I think history of trouble was follow - I flashed OpenWrt. Run It with luci and opkg was present in system. Unfortunatelly I think there is something unmounted/or go wrong after 4 or 5th snapshot upgrade. So I looking possibility not to go through full factory reset and reflash and just curl or wget opkg from somewhere and extract it to /usr/bin
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where to get correct aarch opkg ipk?

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When you typed in ubus call system board it seems to have interpreted it as rubus -- can you try again...

Also, please don't post screenshots. Instead:

Please use the "Preformatted text </>" button for logs, scripts, configs and general console output.
grafik
Please edit your post accordingly. Thank you! :slight_smile:

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You typed run owut, the command is owut, without the run word.

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root@Andersen11:~# ubus call system board
{
        "kernel": "6.6.58",
        "hostname": "Andersen11",
        "system": "ARMv8 Processor rev 4",
        "model": "MERCUSYS MR90X v1",
        "board_name": "mercusys,mr90x-v1",
        "rootfs_type": "squashfs",
        "release": {
                "distribution": "OpenWrt",
                "version": "SNAPSHOT",
                "description": "OpenWrt SNAPSHOT",
                "revision": "r27935-bcd95cb9c4",
                "target": "mediatek/filogic",
                "builddate": "1730120512"
        }
}`
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There is no owut available. But - when I go to attended sysupgrade and switch to advanced mode and add owut to snapshot and flashed - owut was appeared. Then I run owut upgrade -add opkg, And opkg package was appeared. But in web there is error durning opkg update. Unable to execute *opkg update* command: PermissionError: Exec permission denied

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In that case, I would recommend running Luci Attended Sysupgrade, get your package list (select them, copy to a text editor and remove the new lines) and paste it in the Firmware Selector for your model here: https://firmware-selector.openwrt.org/?version=SNAPSHOT&target=mediatek%2Ffilogic&id=mercusys_mr90x-v1

Then, click on Customize installed packages and/or first boot script and paste your package list there and add opkg and owut if it's not there. Then flash your generated image keeping your current config.

It should work.

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Here's a one-liner to do that in CLI:

$ eval $(ubus call rpc-sys packagelist | jsonfilter -e 'packages=$.*') && echo $packages
openssh-sftp-server libc mkf2fs ... kmod-pppoe dnsmasq-full
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Wow, mind blown, I always did that manually because I used echo $(opkg list-installed | sed -e "s/\s.*$//") and returned like a gazillion packages and Luci ASU returned a lot few and didn't know there was something better.

Thanks!

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Does this require snapshot?

root@2305:~# ubus call rpc-sys packagelist
Command failed: Not found

the older forum hack, to only fetch the user installed packages, also still works:

install_time=$(opkg status kernel|awk '$1=="Installed-Time:" {print $2}');opkg status|awk '$1=="Package:" {package=$2} $1=="Status:" {user_inst=/ user/ && / installed/} $1=="Installed-Time:" && $2!='$install_time' && user_inst {print package}'`

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No, that's in the last 4(?) releases, since that rpc-sys call was added.

This call is what all of the ASU clients use internally to collect the top-level package list, and is doing basically what you outline in your awk code. https://github.com/openwrt/rpcd/blob/master/sys.c#L184

There's a parameter that gives back the same as opkg list-installed, but with the ABI tags stripped from the names (False is the default):

$ ubus call rpc-sys packagelist '{"all":True}' | wc -l
286
$ ubus call rpc-sys packagelist '{"all":False}' | wc -l
86
$ ubus call rpc-sys packagelist | wc -l
86
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Oh, and I need to add that the rpc-sys packagelist call is being updated to handle apk, too. So when we switch over, you won't have to rewrite any scripts that use it.