Unrar problem

[sorin7486]

this is what I have in /opt/etc/ipkg.conf exactly... the install works now just by doing "ipkg install unrar" (so it's an improvement) but after instalation I get the same old problem "-sh: unrar: not found"


src wl500g http://wl500g.dyndns.org/ipkg
src unslung http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/unslung/wl500g
src optware http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/op...g/cross/stable
dest root /

[sorin7486]

I tried exactly the ipkg.conf file that you recomendet, installed unrar but I get the same problem ... I think I'll wait ... maybe somebody will solve this once and for all ...

thank you for all the help

[raas]

Hi,

I think the problem now is that you have more than 1 location to get packages from..

Backup your current ipkg.conf file (just in case)

remove everything and insert the following code

src/gz optware http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/optware/oleg/cross/stable
dest /opt/ /

ipkg.conf shouldn't contain anything more than this..

Also, you say the installation finished succesfully, do you have the unrar file present at /opt/bin ?

[sorin7486]

every time I installed unrar I had it present in the /opt/bin ...
I think I did a bad thing ... I added the line you suggested to the ipkg config and I did an "ipkg upgrade"

every single package that was "upgraded" doesn't work anymore... all of them say exactly the same thing as unrar did .... so clearly the packages on that server are not compatible with my firmware!!!!

I'll try to get things back the way they where ...

[thE_29]

Try this: ipkg install http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/op...8-2_mipsel.ipk

With this package unrar works succesfully on my router!

[raas]

Sorin,

I think you have some kind of 'location-problem'
eg. when you want to execute a command, the asus thinks it can find the program at some location, but it isn't there, it's somewhere else,

I think this, because you used a destination root in your ipkg.conf while others suggest /opt

But... very weird behaviour, don't know exactly what to do now.

[sorin7486]

what exactly is that destination ? I mean what does it do ... and I'm not sure actually ... Whatever I try to install from that darn server nothing works ...

[sorin7486]

I think I'll clean up /opt of everything and start once again from the top... I'll keep to the repos suggested in the tutorial and I'll compile unrar myself... looks safer ...

[mistraller]

every time I installed unrar I had it present in the /opt/bin ...
I think I did a bad thing ... I added the line you suggested to the ipkg config and I did an "ipkg upgrade"

every single package that was "upgraded" doesn't work anymore... all of them say exactly the same thing as unrar did .... so clearly the packages on that server are not compatible with my firmware!!!!

I'll try to get things back the way they where ...

If you switch from wl500 repository to oleg repository you should install uclibc-opt, because packages can depend on this newer version!
After upgrading you should re-install all packages which were installed from wl500 repository.

[sorin7486]

THANK YOUUUUU... that was it ...
sadly I already reinstalled everything from scrach but it's ok ... I wanted to clean everything up anyways so no harm done

thanks again