Re: [lime-users] opkg install

Ilario Gelmetti: > On 8/26/20 7:38 PM, amuza wrote: >> I need to install a program in a Lime router (built based on OpenWRT 18.06) >> >> First I have done `opkg update`. It updated some lists of packages but I >> also got the following errors: >> >> -------------------- >> * opkg_download: Failed to download >> http://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/18.06-SNAPSHOT/packages/mips_24kc/lib…, >> wget returned 8. >> * opkg_download: Failed to download >> http://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/18.06-SNAPSHOT/packages/mips_24kc/lib…, >> wget returned 8. >> * opkg_download: Failed to download >> http://snapshots.libremesh.org/packages/mips_24kc/libremesh/Packages.gz, >> wget returned 4. >> -------------------- > > Sorry, it's because we're compiling the "openwrt-18.06" branch instead > of the "v18.06.8" tag (you can see all the tags here [1]). When I edited > the development page on the website I didn't think about the drawbacks > (at that time the reason was that we needed a commit which was not > included yet in any tag). > The binary repositories are available only for tagged releases, that's > why you cannot find the packages using OPKG. > I just edited the webpage (just changed one line) indicating the tag: [2]. > > So that now the command for downloading the OpenWrt code is: > > git clone -b v18.06.8 --single-branch > https://git.openwrt.org/openwrt/openwrt.git > > Maybe you can use the same directory you were using, after some clean > and dirclean, but it's better if you just download again in a clean way. > Sorry for the mess. > Ciao, > Ilario > > PS in the same way, if you want to compile on top of OpenWrt 19.07, just > replace v18.06.8 with v19.07.3 > > [1] https://git.openwrt.org/?p=openwrt/openwrt.git;a=tags > > [2] > https://libremesh.org/development.html#compiling_libremesh_from_source_code > > Sooo nice message Ilario!! I was fighting now with another program I wanted to install, which was giving me the same kind of problems. I will do everything again. Thank you!