Entware on R9000 with V1.0.4.14HF-HW goes 404

[BigWhoop]

Hello Folks,
iam on V1.0.4.14HF-HW and cant use entware.

There is no perl package by default and i cant opkg update because of this:

opkg update
Downloading http://downloads.openwrt.org/attitude_adjustment/12.09-rc1/r9000/generic/packages/Packages.gz.
Collected errors:
* opkg_download: http://downloads.openwrt.org/attitude_adjustment/12.09-rc1/r9000/generic/packages/Packages.gz: Error.

It seems that openwrt has removed these package. So i cant install other packages like entware-opt etc.

 

[BigWhoop]

i tried to sideload an ipk package directly from Voxels repo.

Doesnt work either.

root@ROUTER:~$ opkg install https://www.voxel-firmware.com/Downloads/Voxel/Entware/Entware-3x-Voxel/perl_5.28.0-1_cortex-a15-3x.ipk
Collected errors:
 * wfopen: https://www.voxel-firmware.com/Downloads/Voxel/Entware/Entware-3x-Voxel/perl_5.28.0-1_cortex-a15-3x.ipk: No such file or directory.
 * pkg_init_from_file: Failed to extract control file from https://www.voxel-firmware.com/Downloads/Voxel/Entware/Entware-3x-Voxel/perl_5.28.0-1_cortex-a15-3x.ipk.

after that i downloaded that file via wget and tried to install it:

root@ROUTER:~$ opkg install perl_5.28.0-1_cortex-a15-3x.ipk
Unknown package 'perl'.
Collected errors:
 * pkg_hash_fetch_best_installation_candidate: Packages for perl found, but incompatible with the architectures configured

 

[Voxel]

You should first install minimal Entware according to my README (unpacking entware-cortexa15-3x-initial.tar), checking that there are Entware directories (/opt/bin, /opt/etc etc). And use /opt/bin/opkg. Your problems above are that you are using opkg from /bin but not from /opt/bin. And /bin/opkg is used internally for firmware.

I.e.
/opt/bin/opkg update
/opt/bin/opkg install package-name

Voxel.

 

[BigWhoop]

Hi Voxel,
thanks for your reply.
I used your auto install script.

entware-setup.sh

i tried /opt/bin/opkg update
and /opt/bin/opkg install perl

and that works like a charm.
Thanks.

 

[BigWhoop]

Do you have a good documentation of this?
i tried sftp server installation but cant find files.
And i need a different dhcp because auf DNS Server changes.
Do you have any hint about it?

Thanks in advance.