Trouble instaling a NTFS external disk

[ebarrera]

Hello Friends,

I downloaded and installed your firmware version 18.06.2 on a Linksys WRT1900ACV1. Now I am trying to install support for NTFS, but the console answers for packages: kmod-fs-ntfs and ntfs-3g:
Unknow package 'name-package'
opkg_install_cmd: Cannot install package name-package

Can you tell advice me, on how to install these packages. Also I want to share this external disk in my local network.

Thanks in advance

[jeff]

Have you tried

opkg update
opkg install kmod-fs-ntfs
opkg install ntfs-3g

or updating the package list and installing them through LuCI?

The package lists are kept on a RAM-backed temporary file system, so they need to be fetched (opkg update) before they have any content after every boot. It's a good idea to fetch them before any install.

You may need some other packages to get the WRT1900 to recognize USB storage, but I don't know that unit well enough to know what is already installed.

[ebarrera]

Hello Jeff,

Thanks for your fast and useful answer. I was missing opkg update line. I'm newbie.

Best regards

[lleachii]

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[R4226]

@jeff

Have you tried

opkg update
opkg install kmod-fs-ntfs
opkg install ntfs-3g

or updating the package list and installing them through LuCI?

The package lists are kept on a RAM-backed temporary file system, so they need to be fetched ( opkg update ) before they have any content after every boot. It's a good idea to fetch them before any install.

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!! I've been going nuts with these packages not installing. With the opkg update in front allows it to work every time!!!

They should make a note of this a lot more in the OpenWrt tutorials, especially with hooking up USB drives. Finally got NTFS drives working.