La Fonera's IPKG Bug

Posted by coldtobi | 6 Jul, 2007, 23:12

An Article in the category: Do Not Brick Your Fonera Router. If you break it, you'll have to keep the pieces.

The ipkg binary in the fonera is broken. It is not really the ipkg binary, which is broken. So it can happen, that  -- especially a ipkg remove -- can delete some essential directories. /lib/ for example, effectivly break the router.

But there is an script available, which replaces ipkg to get it safe. Just execute the following (on Fonera)

wget  http://blog.coldtobi.de/gallery/1/ipkg.txt -O /usr/bin/ipgk; chmod 0750 /usr/bin/ipkg   

[Update:] Safer is:

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