Synology DiskStation DS710+ - Installing IPKG package manager

By default, the Synology DiskStation doesn't have the ipkg package manager installed, despite it being the main way to manage packages on the DiskStation.

To get ipkg onto DiskStation DS710+, you need to do the following you need to do this:


SSH onto the box as root: ssh root@DiskStation (your password will be the same as your admin password.)

Download the .xsh file for your DiskStation from the repository - for the DS710+ you need the file http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/optware/syno-i686/cross/unstable/syno-i686-bootstrap_1.2-7_i686.xsh - I downloaded this to the home directory (wget is conveniently available by default).

wget http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/optware/syno-i686/cross/unstable/syno-i686-bootstrap_1.2-7_i686.xsh

After downloading, install by doing the following:

DiskStation> sh syno-i686-bootstrap_1.2-7_i686.xsh
Optware Bootstrap for syno-i686.
Extracting archive... please wait
bootstrap/
bootstrap/bootstrap.sh
bootstrap/ipkg-opt.ipk
bootstrap/ipkg.sh
bootstrap/optware-bootstrap.ipk
bootstrap/wget.ipk
1215+1 records in
1215+1 records out
Creating temporary ipkg repository...
Installing optware-bootstrap package...
Unpacking optware-bootstrap.ipk...Done.
Configuring optware-bootstrap.ipk...Setting up ipkg arch-file
Modifying /etc/rc.local
Done.
Installing ipkg...
Unpacking ipkg-opt.ipk...Done.
Configuring ipkg-opt.ipk...Done.
Removing temporary ipkg repository...
Installing wget...
Installing wget (1.12-2) to root...
Configuring wget
Successfully terminated.
Creating /opt/etc/ipkg/cross-feed.conf...
Setup complete.

After install is complete remove the .xsh file, update and upgrade the ipkg packages to bring yourself up to date:

DiskStation> ipkg update
Downloading http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/optware/syno-i686/cross/unstable/Packages.gz
Inflating http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/optware/syno-i686/cross/unstable/Packages.gz
Updated list of available packages in /opt/lib/ipkg/lists/cross
Successfully terminated.
DiskStation> ipkg upgrade
Nothing to be done

and ipkg should be installed.

Hope This Helps.