[SOLVED] Owut is reporting - Package uclient-fetch is missing

Installing and Using OpenWrt
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I just updated my Cudy WR3000s to 25.12.2 using owut.

When checking using owut check I am getting a warning that there is one package uclient-fetch missing.

I do have 3 of these devices running and not getting this warning for the others.
Maybe I de-installed some other software and that package was removed accidentally?

Question: how can I now add that missing uclient-fetch package?

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You can add the package with:

apk update; apk add uclient-fetch

You have most likely already added "wget" or "wget-ssl" and therefore it is usually not necessary for “apk”.

when you run it again:

owut upgrade

will be added to the constructed image.

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Where exactly is this "missing" occurring? On the right hand column of the Package version changes: section? If so, that indicates that it was not found on in the package feeds and something has gone wrong with the upstream builds for that device...

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Default package analysis:
  Default                             Provided-by
  nftables                            nftables-json
  uclient-fetch                       not installed

There are currently package build failures for 25.12.2 aarch64_cortex-a53:
  Feed: packages
    domoticz                          Mon Apr  6 06:21:36 2026 - not installed
    gost_engine                       Mon Apr  6 05:40:54 2026 - not installed
    pigeonhole                        Mon Apr  6 06:32:39 2026 - not installed
    python-flask-httpauth             Mon Apr  6 06:21:49 2026 - not installed
    python-gevent                     Mon Apr  6 06:19:40 2026 - not installed
    python-psycopg2                   Mon Apr  6 06:11:08 2026 - not installed
    python-pyodbc                     Mon Apr  6 06:20:01 2026 - not installed
    python-ubus                       Mon Apr  6 06:11:54 2026 - not installed
    tvheadend                         Mon Apr  6 05:59:30 2026 - not installed
  Feed: telephony
    asterisk-chan-sccp                Mon Apr  6 06:52:16 2026 - not installed
  Feed: video
    assimp                            Mon Apr  6 04:36:08 2026 - not installed
    glslang                           Mon Apr  6 04:36:28 2026 - not installed
    qt5base                           Mon Apr  6 06:51:14 2026 - not installed
    qt5quick                          Mon Apr  6 06:51:16 2026 - not installed
    qt5quick-controls                 Mon Apr  6 06:51:23 2026 - not installed
    qt5script                         Mon Apr  6 06:51:15 2026 - not installed
    qt5svg                            Mon Apr  6 06:51:15 2026 - not installed
    qt5translations                   Mon Apr  6 07:13:25 2026 - not installed
    qt5virtualkeyboard                Mon Apr  6 07:13:26 2026 - not installed
    vkmark                            Mon Apr  6 06:47:18 2026 - not installed
20 package build failures don't affect this device, details at
  https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/faillogs-25.12/aarch64_cortex-a53/

WARNING: There are 1 missing default packages, confirm this is expected before proceeding
It is safe to proceed with an upgrade

This is the output

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@ncompact already gave you the proper steps to get it installed

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Just to clarify: I didn’t mention adding uclient-fetch directly via owut because the servers are currently under load (as seen from the build failures).

I opted for the simplest and most immediate solution using apk to avoid potential issues or delays.

owut download --verbose -a uclient-fetch
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OK, solved!

Thanks a lot

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