Re: 7zz Package Install Failed

Installing and Using OpenWrt
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Hi,

Responding to closed thread

Which is the number one discussion for openwrt 7zip on google

Plus also this github repo, for reference

I would like to know how does one, in year 2024, install 7zip on openwrt ?

I do not see it in the list of packages

But 7zip is the most often recommended package for doing the task that I need at this time.

(which is extract files from a .iso, which in my case must be done from the openwrt as I am repacking the iso)

In any case, 7zip on openwrt, can it be done ?

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This is like heavy duty deja-vu feeling on this tread🤣

I though the biggest subject on google was your openwrt proxy server a couple of hours ago?

And did you actually read this forum link you have linked to that I said in your last forum tread users need to do when being feed information from google?

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This is regarding the query

"how to install 7zip openwrt"

4

Yea, unfortunately I have good memory.
So have you read the forum tread you linked to and have you actually tried the github repository you linked to?

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Answer from 2020 was "you can't"

Tested it

root@ipxe:/# git clone https://github.com/hubutui/p7zip-lede.git package/p7zip
e menucon/bin/ash: fgit: not found
igroot@ipxe:/# make menuconfig
/bin/ash: make: not found

It depends on a whole lotta stuff

But is this still still accurate ? Maybe there are better answer posts from 2023 that are burried on the 2nd page of google.

I would have asked in the other thread, but it is closed. I'm sure those guys are up to the latest in openwrt-7zip news.

Maybe I'm just the first person that ever has had to unpack an iso on openwrt and this is the first time this came up.

But as far as search results, what is above is "it"

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Nothing has really changed since the last answer from 2020, OpenWrt is still only an embedded router firmware. Not a full linux distro like Ubuntu etc.

You need to run the github repository you linked to when building your openwrt image from source code, then the make menuconfig does exist.

Build from sourcecode is probably the easiest solution for you, then you don’t need to open iso images and repackage them, what the purpose with that is to begin with?

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Hi,

This is an openwrt working as a dhcp proxy serving netboot images

It serves ipxe, then when ipxe boots on the client, it will server a bootable iso, but need to insert a text file into that iso based on which client it is.

Basically that will be a openwrt based all purpose netboot appliance
I choose openwrt because of how light it is, it will fit in one of my lowest powered proxmox server (antique chromebox from 2012) and still leave room for a few other things.

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It can be that it maybe would be easier to i use a real linux distro with original Dnsmasq for this instead of OpenWrt Dnsmasq because OpenWrt has a lot of patches between OpenWrt and Dnsmasq that can complex setups pita.

And then you also got add ons like 7zip.