Mar 04, 2014 Clone via HTTPS Clone with Git or checkout with SVN using the repository’s web address. Optware was originally developed as a distribution mechanism for software for the Unslung Linux project for the Linksys NSLU2 (a small low cost network storage device). That consumer storage device ran on Linux, and the community opened it up, but they needed a lightweight distribution mechanism for their lightweight devices.
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Outdated article! Read instead.This article deals with installing Optware (IPKG) on QNAP TS-210 NAS machine.
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Optware is a must-have, if you want to do anything with your NAS that goes beyond using as simple network storage. I.e., if you want to access it via SSH and play a little around Linux on-board. In other words, in installs many core utils, that are simply gone from default distribution of Linux on-board QNAP.If any QPKG is available for different processor architectures, you must use ARM (x19 series), as this is architecture of a processor installed in TS-210.Optware (IPKG) is very useful to install the core-utils packages (system or shell commands) not available on default distribution of Linux on-board QNAP due to optimization limitations. Install IPKG and you will have access to, as its description states, “a bunch of heavyweight.nix core utilities”. You can install many other GNU tools then, like mc, diff, less and many more.To install IPKG log into Administration Panel of your QNAP and go to Application Servers QPKG Center Available. Click on Install on the right to Optware IPKG item.Sometimes web-install fails.
Then you can install package manually. Get it, by clicking Download in the same position as above.
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OBSELETE: as of January 2019, Optware is no longer listed in the QNAP 'App Center'. It appears that QNAP withdrew it sometime in 2015 or 2016. Is a non-QNAP QPKG which serves the same purpose of giving access to many command-line software tools used on a wide range of NAS systems.The following content is preserved for history. Some of the wording has been changed to make it clear Optware is withdrawn.By installing, you used to be able to open the door to installing many other software packages by many different developers. Supplies as a plugin on many of their products. This is probably the easiest way to install for most.
We also give instructions on manual install.
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