How to install standard OpenWRT packages in recent Teltonika RUTOS versions

Problem

In recent versions of Teltonika RUTOS, the package manager has been replaced with a custom solution.

This means, that you can’t install most of the standard OpenWRT packages using opkg anymore. For example, you can’t install tcpdump using

opkg_update_install.sh
opkg update
opkg install rsync

Solution

You can still install standard OpenWRT packages by using opkg -e /etc/opkg/openwrt/distfeeds.conf

Example:

opkg_distfeeds_install.sh
opkg -e /etc/opkg/openwrt/distfeeds.conf update
opkg -e /etc/opkg/openwrt/distfeeds.conf install rsync

This works around the limitations imposed by the default system configuration by using the distfeeds (i.e. normal OpenWRT) package feed directly.


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