Optware was originally developed as a distribution mechanism for software for the Open Source 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.
Since 2004 Optware has been adopted by a variety of Linux communities and device developers including the webOS community working on the Palm Pre and Pixi, and developers for devices as diverse as Asus WL-500g,WL-HDD, WL-500gx, WL-500gP routers, the Synology DS-101 and DS-101g+ NAS devices.
At its core, Optware is a package manager to allow you to easly install and uninstall cross-compiled linux applications on your device over the internet. At this time, optware supports the automatic download and installation of over 1500 programs. (See the list at the end of the wiki article.)
Why should I use Optware?
Like the original slug, android devices lack a distribution mechanism to install Linux/command line tools programs and utilities. Many in the Android community who want or need to do command line processing on their device use a chroot of some sort (Debian seems popular) to get their distribution and package management tools. With Optware, it becomes possible to simply run whatever utility or program you want on the native underlying Linux.
Additionally, Optware For Android installs openSSH making it possible to access your Nook from any PC with SSH capability, and sets up an unprivileged username/password login system for the device at the command line. All in all then, since it can be installed with a single script, since it's lightweight, and since it's designed for small and embedded devices, Optware is a perfect fit for the Android community.
Optware for Nook is the first Optware for Android release by the Novaports team and is their gift to the Android community members who have helped them so much with information on Android devices.
What does it do?
The Optware bootstrap installed the IPKG package manager. It installs the optware Busybox. It installs openSSH and makes the ssh demon persistent. It creates an unprivileged user with a username and password you choose.
See Installation instructions and details at the Optware for Android page at Nookdevs.com
For completeness of licensing compliance, the source code for all optware package can be found at the following locations:
1) build scripts at svn.nslu2-linux.org in the /svnroot/optware/ area
2) tarballs at sources.nslu2-linux.org in the /sources area (this is a *large* directory)
To contribute code to Optware, see www . nslu2-linux . org in the /wiki/Optware/AddAPackageToOptware area
-- Rod Whitby
-- Original NSLU2-Linux Project Lead and Optware Architect
This works beautifully! Thank you!
Gonna try this and see if i can get samba to work.. a SMB mount over wifi would be awsome...
Many thanks!
I don't suppose there's a quick and easy way to completely remove optware?... not looking forward to culling through scripts and manually un-doing it all.....
adduser: not found
When it gets to the part in the install script to add the username of the unprivileged user, I enter a name, then it says: adduser: not found.
If it helps, I am using Rooted Stock 1.1.
Anyone get Optware to install on CM7 (newer nightly)
I am running CM7 #103 and would love to have optware installed.
But I get Fail if I try to use the method from Nookdevs
Tonight when I have more time I will look at the errors and see if I can tell what is up.
It looked like partially due to missing dir's for one (/tmp)
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Gonna try this and see if i can get samba to work.. a SMB mount over wifi would be awsome...
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The market has your answer and it's free:
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.funkyfresh.samba&feature=search_result
Am I the only one that wants Optware on CM7?
It goes fine on a manualnootered 1.2.0 NC But I prefer CM7 (And use the nightlies)
I would love to get this going on my NC as well. Running CM7 N121 w/ 6/30/2011 OC kernel. Was able to manually work past the tmp directory problem you mentioned, but I can't seem to execute the ipkg binary or installed. I've verified it indeed exists in the path I'm trying to execute it from, it has +x perms for user/ group/ other, but it always gives the error below:
/data/opt/bin/ipkg: not found
I've tried messing with bin directory and ipkg binary ownership, but no dice. If anything it should at least find it even if permissions aren't correct.
Looks like the contents of the binary reference ELF libraries which sounds like an issue attempting to execute in an Android environment. Going to see if I can chroot an environment that will work for it.
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This is happening because it's looking for /lib/ld-linux.so.3, and not finding it. I worked around by
ln -s /data/opt/lib/ld-linux.so.3 /lib/ld-linux.so.3
I also had to make these links:
ln -s /data/opt /opt
ln -s /data/tmp /tmp
And then set this:
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/opt/lib
export PATH=$PATH:/opt/bin/:/opt/sbin
in my bash profile to get things to start working.
One problem is my symlinks seem to get erased every reboot. I worked around by re-creating them in my bash profile, but I wish I knew how to make them permanent. This may be a ROM specific thing - this was written for a rooted stock nook, and I'm on an Epic running SFR.
I do not have a ld-linux.so.3 file on my NC w/ CM7 125
I have many other errors that show up:
Downloading the latest ipkg-opt package from the Optware package feed:
Connecting to ipkg.nslu2-linux.org (140.211.169.161:80)
wget: can't open 'ipkg-opt_0.99.163-10_arm.ipk': File exists
(NOTE the above file 'ipkg-opt_0.99.163-10_arm.ipk' does not exist
(on my NC - from a find / -name ipkg-opt_0.99.163-10_arm.ipk)
Updating the Optware package database:
ERROR: Failed to update the local Optware package database
Updating the Optware package database:
/data/optware-bootstrap-0.0.1.shar: ipkg-opt: not found
ERROR: Failed to update the local Optware package database
Any ideas?
The actual file it needs is /data/opt/lib/ld-linux.so.3 - you need to create a symlink in /lib in order to see it. But I think that file comes from the optware installer - if the installer is failing, you won't have it there either. It sounds like you may have bits of a previous install that failed, and it's preventing the install from running properly. Try looking at the log in /data/tmp for more info. After that, try rm -rf /data/tmp/* to clean up the old install and trying again.
Thank You for any pointers.
I deleted everything in /data/tmp first last attempt - like you suggested.
Same result
I have it down to only this error now when I run it (optware-bootstrap-0.0.1.shar):
Updating the Optware package database:
optware-bootstrap-0.0.1.shar: ipkg-opt: not found
ERROR: Failed to update the local Optware package database
ipkg-opt should be in /data/opt/bin. Check to see if it's there... if not, something went wrong in one of the previous steps - probably somewhere around "Downloading the latest ipkg-opt package from the Optware package feed". See if wget is actually downloading anything, where it's putting it, and what it's doing with it afterwards.
If it is there, try running it manually. If you see /data/opt/bin/ipkg or /data/opt/bin/ipkg-opt but it claims it's not there when you run it, it may be a library linking error. Mine was looking for /lib/ld-linux.so.3 but it was actually installed at /data/opt/lib/ld-linux.so.3. mount -o remount,rw followed by ln -s /data/opt/lib/ld-linux.so.3 /lib/ld-linux.so.3 fixed that. I also had to run
ln -s /data/opt /opt
ln -s /data/tmp /tmp
before things started working.
By the way:
ntfsprogs - NTFS filesystem libraries and utilities
Could that be of any use? At the moment, it's not possible to mount NTFS storage on the NC
i would love to know how you guys get to this point even. When i try to install the very fist line of the script is an error and then nothing at all happens .... something about not finding busybox or something of that nature.
So you guys are getting WAY farther than I've been able to.
Tkx Tonygoes.
It is there in /data/opt/bin but it reports /data/opt/bin/ipkg: not found
I cannot find a ld-linux.so.3 on my NC at all.
I did the other links et al fro your comments also
obsid:
Try post 12 above:
and I had some other suggestions from someone:
might try thses FIRST the script seems to do it but may not actually get it done.
mount -o remount,rw / /
mount -o remount,rw /dev/block/mmcblk0p5 /system
you should also if tried before do this: rm -rf /data/tmp/
then do the items in post #12 above
NOTE for me the ln -s to ld-linux.so.3 does not work as I do not have that file on my system
Hello. I have the latest Android SDK and Eclipse w/ADT set up on my Ubuntu 10.10 box. I have tried many examples and wrote my own practice apps. Everything so far has worked well!
My goal is to modify the stock MMS app so that I can modify the Delete functionality to require a pin or password. This will help keep my 11 and 13 year old children's texting clean and under control. (yes, I understand that they could install another MMS app, but thats something I can watch for too)
I'm a well seasoned programmer (c/c++/php/bash) and I'm just learning java/Android API. I thought this project would be a great place to start...
My problem is, I can't build the mms app at all. I have used git to download the approriate sources:
Code:
[email protected]sktop:~/dev$ git clone git://android.git.kernel.org/platform/packages/apps/Mms.git
I then created a new workspace in Eclipse, and created a new Android project, where I imported from existing source. In the "problems" tab in Eclipse, I get:
Code:
1,464 errors, 112 warnings, 0 others (filter matched 200 of 1576 items)
Errors (100 of 1464 items)
Description Resource Path Location Type
AcknowledgeInd cannot be resolved to a type RetrieveTransaction.java /ConversationList/src/com/android/mms/transaction line 222 Java Problem
Description Resource Path Location Type
AcknowledgeInd cannot be resolved to a type RetrieveTransaction.java /ConversationList/src/com/android/mms/transaction line 222 Java Problem
...
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Description Resource Path Location Type
Addr cannot be resolved AddressUtils.java /ConversationList/src/com/android/mms/util line 47 Java Problem
...
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Description Resource Path Location Type
ArrayListCursor cannot be resolved to a type RecipientsAdapter.java /ConversationList/src/com/android/mms/ui line 208 Java Problem
...
...
etc
Basically tons of errors. Its almost like an include path isn't set properly somewhere.
Can anybody help me to get this to compile, then I can begin modifying and testing my changes!
thanks!
I think you'll need a good portion of the AOSP source tree to get all the base framework stuff needed to compile this.
Ok thanks, pulling down the AOSP tree now. I'll retry once its pulled down and report back here if I have more problems
Compile Mms Eclair AOSP using Eclipse
hello to all,
can anyone point me how to edit/compile a 'default/vanilla' mms app of AOSP using Eclipse?
I'm currently using ubuntu 10.04 with the with android sdk's for Eclair and Froyo and I was trying to compile the Eclair Mms
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I have trying building ffmpeg for android using windows 7 and Cygwin. I have android-ndk-r9d.
I have download the source code from here
I have already set NDK environment variable. And updated TOOLCHAIN line to: TOOLCHAIN=echo $NDK/toolchains/arm-linux-androideabi-4.8/prebuilt/windows-x86_64 because linux folder not present.
After running ./build.sh command. I got following error:
arm-linux-androideabi-gcc is unable to create an executable file.
C compiler test failed.
If you think configure made a mistake, make sure you are using the latest
version from SVN. If the latest version fails, report the problem to the
[email protected] mailing list or IRC #ffmpeg on irc.freenode.net.
Include the log file "config.log" produced by configure as this will help
solving the problem.
Help me to find out what I did wrong?
I've been working on porting Octave (command line only) to the m8 for a few days now. I have all of its' dependencies compiled now, except for SuiteSparse. It requires output from some components during compile (it first compiles one program, then runs it to generate some data, then uses the data to compile others.) Since I can't run these on a computer, I've created a toolchain to compile on the device itself. Surprisingly, I can get the compiler to run on the device. Unfortunately, I have to use ld to run anything. The command looks something like this:
~$ ld-linux.so /path/to/gcc/tuple-gcc
It outputs just fine. But I can't simply run
~$ tuple-gcc
I have added the path to PATH, but still can't figure it out.
To compile anything I need to specify CC, as well as the other tools, but I can't figure out how to do this if they have to be executed using ld.
Any ideas?
Also, for anyone trying to do this, many configure scripts require "ls -t".
The coreutils that are installed in the base system are extremely stripped down, and ls doesn't support many of its normal switches.
I have compiled coreutils and will be testing them shortly. Hopefully they don't also have to be executed using ld!
***UPDATE***
I now have a fully-working compiler, to compile on the hardware itself.
Will try to make the 10 post minimum soon, to post a tut.
friends I downloaded the binary opnevpn for use in android 2.3.6 the question is I downloaded the binary compile from linux, ubuntu.
using ndk, ndk-build a see compiled me tumulto a binary statico the tranfiero to the celulcar and use the settigns openvpn client to connect the server connects, but throw me a FATAL error Linux ip link set failed could not execute external program, and does not connect will put a screenshot of the error that happens when I compile the binary used binary by default works well , my goal by which compile the binary is to be able to add http custom headers, that only this habiliado on android 4.x on thank the assistance and/or sugernecia of this thank you. FOR YOUR ANSWER.
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my not allow upload image my error is := FATAL Linux ip link set failed could not execute external program :C
My guess is that it cannot execute /system/bin/ip or /system/xbin/ip (this is Android we're talking about, right?)
If I recalled correctly, that's a symlink to busybox, so try adding something like
#include [ipbinaryheader.h]
#include [busybox.h]
Into the c.
Replace [ ] with the sharp one
Disclaimer: I'm relatively new to programming, so please try it yourself and see if it works, I'm not sure.
I'll add more later when I have time.
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My guess is that it cannot execute /system/bin/ip or /system/xbin/ip (this is Android we're talking about, right?)
If I recalled correctly, that's a symlink to busybox, so try adding something like
#include [ipbinaryheader.h]
#include [busybox.h]
Into the c.
Replace [ ] with the sharp one
Disclaimer: I'm relatively new to programming, so please try it yourself and see if it works, I'm not sure.
I'll add more later when I have time.
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If is so friend is android what am talking, but between as user root in system / bin / and look for, ip and if this in that directory I have a doubt I equal am new in ndk, in where added them header of c that you put excuse me my English and you agredezco always its helps