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Title: Why The Hell Did I Try To Upgrade Ipkg?
Post by: niv on June 24, 2005, 11:37:43 pm

the prgram closed unexpectly, and I had to reset via the rear button.
now I can run the program manager

em......             HELP!

Title: Why The Hell Did I Try To Upgrade Ipkg?
Post by: ironstorm on June 25, 2005, 01:40:46 am

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the prgram closed unexpectly, and I had to reset via the rear button.
now I can run the program manager

em......             HELP!
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Title: Why The Hell Did I Try To Upgrade Ipkg?
Post by: lardman on June 25, 2005, 12:03:54 pm

I'd recommend re-installing ipkg from the terminal (in fact I'd recommend doibng everything from the terminal, but I'm strange like that).

Assuming you've clobbered ipkg, do the following:

1) download the (old - as otherwise the version will be wrong - not a major issue though) ipkg ipk file
2) put it in a temp dir and then run 'ar -x ipkg-blah.ipk', you'll get 3 files out.
3) then run 'cd / && tar -zxvf /path/to/temp/dir/data.tar.gz', this will extract the ipkg binary, then it should all work again (he says  )
4) then run 'ipkg install /path/to/new/ipkg/file/ipkg-blah.ipk' (on the new version) OR if you have a network connection run 'ipkg install ipkg'


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