[luci] Compiling and installing Luci as a package

[Jo-Philipp Wich]

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Hi Tim.


LuCI is splitted in many small modules and the simplest way to pull all
required dependencies is to use opkg.

You could publish your bin/packages/target-xyz/ directory on a http
server in your lan and then add this custom repository to /etc/opkg.conf
on your router.

For example for brcm47xx such an entry would look like:

src/gz lan http://192.168.1.10/packages/

Where "/packages/" is the folder which contains the "Packages.gz" file.
After that run:

opkg update
opkg install luci-admin-full


If you keep getting "model not found" errors after the installation, try
removing the internal caches with:

rm -rf /var/luci-*

... or reboot the router. Then try accessing the web interface again.


If setting up a local webserver is no option, scp the following packages
to /tmp on your router:

lua
liblua
libuci-lua
luci-core
luci-cbi
luci-web
luci-uvl
luci-uci
luci-sys
luci-http
luci-theme-base
luci-theme-openwrt
luci-sgi-cgi
luci-i18n-english
luci-admin-core
luci-admin-full


After that install them one-by-one with:

opkg install /tmp/xyz.ipk


I really suggest to build LuCI directly into the image (select as <*>)
in make menuconfig since this will take care of proper installation and
safe a lot of flash space compared to an installation with opkg.


HTH,
JoW
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