ipkg
| Developer(s) | Carl Worth, Steve Ayer, Jamey Hicks |
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| Stable release | 0.99.163 / May 30, 2006 |
| Development status | Inactive |
| Written in | C |
| Operating system | Linux |
| Type | Package management system |
| License | GPL v2 |
| Website |
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ipkg, or the Itsy Package Management System, is a lightweight package management system designed for embedded devices that resembles Debian's dpkg. It was used in the Unslung operating system for the Linksys NSLU2 (Optware), in OpenWrt, Openmoko, webOS, Gumstix, the iPAQ, QNAP NASes and elsewhere, it still is being used for Synology NASes.
The development for this project has been discontinued. Many projects which formerly used ipkg have adopted the ipkg fork opkg for a replacement.
Example use
To install a .ipkg package or to upgrade an existing package:
ipkg install ipkgFile
where ipkgFile is the name of the .ipk software package.
The list of possible packages to install from the currently defined repositories can be obtained with:
ipkg list
The list of installed packages can be obtained with:
ipkg list_installed
To remove an installed package:
ipkg remove packagename
See also
- opkg
- Package management system
External links
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