OPKG Repository

Introduction

METEL provides many packages to fullfil user's needs.IPLOG device has limited capacity, thus all packages may not be installed.

Repository

METEL provides two main repositories for IPLOG devices.

• base - provining base packages for any IPLOG device;
• firmware - providing firmware for any IPLOG device.

Device

Configuration

Before using OPKG a configuration file shall exists in a directory /etc/opkg. An example of /etc/opkg/metel.conf follows:

#
# Copyright (C) 1996-2018 METEL s.r.o. - PC 2018080100
#

src/gz base http://www.iplog.eu/opkg/base
src/gz firmware http://www.iplog.eu/opkg/firmware

# end-of-file

Packages list

The following command will update packages list in a device by downloading IPLOG repository.

opkg update

The following command will list all available packages.

opkg list

Installing a package

The following command will install package "mysql" that provides mysql server.

opkg install mysql

Upgrading installed packages

The following commands will update packages list in a device and upgrade all installed packaged to the latest version.

opkg update
opkg upgrade