Opkg is a lightweight package Management System based upon ipkg. It is written in C and resembles APT/dpkg in operation. It is intended for use on embedded Linux devices and is used in this capacity in the OpenEmbedded and OpenWrt projects.
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Fail message with opkg in yocto project
I am not sure that this is the best place to ask about yocto, there is a webpage such a forum only of yocto? This is my first question. The second question is related to the title, I have problems with the opkg when I am trying install packets. I…

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Is there a source build available for the libxslt development package?
I am trying to install lxml on a ReMarkable tablet, and while the opkg entware repo has libxslt, it does not contain a package for libxslt-dev. I was wondering if anyone has links to a source build or even better an ipkg file. I've been scouring the…

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Is it possible to "install" additional development packages into the SDK
Is it possible to use the yocto SDK (created with bitbake -c populate_sdk) in a way, that needed (development) libraries can be installed without creating a new SDK every time?
I think about a pseudo distribution, where I can run something like opkg…

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postinst is not called, but preinst
I am on Busybox and create my own packages. I have preinst and postinst files, preinst is called when I install the package, but postinst is not. The read and execute permissions are corretly set. I don't get an error message when I create or…

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setxkbmap equivalent in a Yocto Project based Distro
setxkbmap it
doesn't work.
How i configure the keyboard layout in RDK Video IP (A Yocto Project based Distro)?

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How to install gcc on openwrt?
I'm trying to install gcc on openwrt with the following command:
opkg install gcc
But it gives me the following error:
/bin/ash: gcc: not found
root@OpenWrt:/mp1# opkg install gcc
Unknown package 'gcc'.
Collected errors:
* opkg_install_cmd: Cannot…

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Can't install libgtk2.0-dev_2.24.31-2_arm64.deb on Renesas R-Car H3 (H3ULCB)
I am trying to run object detection algorithm (which is using OpenCV 2.4.13.7) on H3ULCB. It is giving libGTK as shown below
root@h3ulcb:/media/2.4.13_algo_target_# ./main_
OpenCV Error: Unspecified error (The function is not implemented. Rebuild…

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I created a git repository on the openwrt router, but I got the error on my mac
opkg.conf:
src/gz chaos_calmer_base http://downloads.openwrt.org/chaos_calmer/15.05/bcm53xx/generic/packages/base/
src/gz chaos_calmer_packages http://downloads.openwrt.org/chaos_calmer/15.05/bcm53xx/generic/packages/packages/
dest root /data
dest…

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OpenWRT: Signature file download failed. wget returned 8
I have a GL-iNet GL-AR300M. I was having some problems with OpenVPN using two different VPN services on firmware 2.x, so I decided to update to firmware 3.x to see if that would resolve the issue. Firmware 3.x is based on OpenWRT.
Having installed…

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How to compile multiple C file with single Makefile in OpenWRT?
I am having multiple 'C' files in '/home/user/openwrt/package/utils/C_script/src/one.c two.c three.c upto ten.c in the same path. Inside I have written Makefile to compile C files in order. Like
one: one.c
$(CC) $(LDFLAG) -o one one.c
two:…

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Packet Manager on Hue bridge
I have successfully jailbreaked my Hue Bridge 2.1 and now have Root Access over SSH to it.
But I don't know how I can Install a Packet Manager (like opkg) on it.
It looks like wget is installed, but nothing else really. Also SCP works.
I have tried…

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ipkg update segmentation fault
Well, this is not a promising start, to have my question title marked as 'frequently downvoted' but I can't make it more clear. So I try it anyway. Here's the problem:
ipkg update
Downloading…

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Cannot install bmon using opkg under Openwrt?
After running opkg install bmon, I got this error:
root@OpenWrt:~# opkg install bmon
Installing bmon (4.0-1) to root...
Downloading http://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/trunk/ar71xx/generic/packages/packages/bmon_4.0-1_ar71xx.ipk.
Multiple…

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Can't use opkg on pre-configured embedded machine
I want to add a feature to a pre-configured embedded machine with uname -a output:
Linux asdf 3.1.10 #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Nov 11 02:05:03 CET 2016 armv7l GNU/Linux
It uses busybox for a lot of its terminal commands and has a lot of stuff that doesn't…

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How to install an .ipk file in debian
I have read that an .ipk file is installed via manager opkg. However, I do not have this software on my computer and I don't know how to install it.
Is there some other option to install this kind of files?
Thank you

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