Qnap ipkg update failed

These are to be run as part of system startup. This section explains how to patch the firmware to add this startup action. The name of this link is something like QSOptware , where is a sequence number that depends on how many QPKG packages you installed and in what order. This is what these files look like in TSP Firmware 3. Edit the install script. It's fine to get to it via one of its Symlinks :. We will add a block of code just before the ;; stop lines.

The portion of the file now looks like the following:. All Optware packages which need to run at startup time, should run automatically. This would require you to reapply this patch. It should also preserve the original path, with any modifications which other software made. Replace it so that this part of the file looks like:. For instance:. First, go to optware installation directory to avoid messing up free space on root partition then downloading the package.

If there are errors or you do not see Downloading info that means that either you did not edit ipkg. Note , this script is a starting point for your own scripts, but thought it might be useful. The linux gurus know - this means some lib is missing!

That would not be the problem, but everything installed by Optware also relies on those libs and hence fails now You download the file and install it via Qnap-GUI.

Unfortunately this tool does not have a "nice" the so called gui of Optware was never nice GUI for this, just a command line command called opkg mind the o. And in that case, I do not need to dig further - the 32 bit libs are not there anymore.