Category: opkg

Linux package management systems for embedded systems. The utilities: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ipkg – the history https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/opkg – ipkg fork, the currently popular one The repositories: Optware, Optware-ng, Entware, Entware-ng: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optware – how it all started https://github.com/Optware/Optware – outdated https://github.com/Optware/Optware-ng – an Optware fork using opkg – supports PPC, i686, …; does not support x86-64 – this page has the installation instructions – they do use…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poppler_(software)  – very nice description of the poppler-utils https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xpdf https://github.com/Entware-ng/Entware-ng https://github.com/Entware-ng/Entware-ng/wiki https://github.com/Entware-ng/Entware-ng/wiki/Install-on-Synology-NAS I actually mean “pdftohtml -xml” – which creates XML from PDF, and this is my command line: $ pdftohtml -xml -i -nomerge -hidden FILE.pdf resp.: $ pdftohtml -xml -i -nomerge -hidden FILE.pdf FILE.pdftohtml.xml Sometimes I need to run “pdftohtml -xml” (on the command line)…

https://www.synology.com/en-global/products/DS713+ https://www.synology.com/en-global/products/DS715+ – not yet out https://www.synology.com/en-global/products/DS215j of course I would have preferred a DS715+ or DS714+, but they are not available, the DS713+ isn’t really as low power as the DS215j it’s fun to see my bash and Perl scripts to run just the same on an openSUSE machine and on a Synology DiskStation –…

http://willuhn.de/products/hibiscus-server/ https://www.synology.com/en-global/releaseNote/JavaManager Synology’s JavaManager assists in installing Oracle’s JVM successfully I succeeded running the hibiscus server shell script to start the hibiscus server I have operated the hibiscus server successfully for months now on openSUSE VMs just as I operated the openSUSE based hibiscus servers, the Synology BusyBox+IPKG based hibiscus server seems to run stably…

http://linux.die.net/man/1/nail https://sourceforge.net/projects/nail/ : Heirloom mailx (formerly known as “nail”) is intended provide the functionality of the POSIX mailx command with additional support for MIME messages, IMAP (including caching), POP3, SMTP, S/MIME, message threading/sorting, scoring, and filtering. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/mailx on my Synology NAS it is available as an IPKG package using this utility I can send out files from…

Within .profile I try to find out, where exactly (in which environment) “I” am operating. Once I know this, I can set up PATH depending on the environment. Of course on a Synology NAS based on a BusyBox with IPKG (GNU) extensions things look different to my Mac or to my OpenSUSE installations, but still:…

There are two different strategies to access /volume1/@optware through /opt: a symlink (the approach I prefer) “mount -o bind” (usually run through /etc/rc.optware) Once in a while (usually after a DSM update) the symlink “/opt” got removed and/or /etc/rc.optware already executed the “mount -o bind”. I am checking on my /opt symlink in my ~/.profile,…