ipkg update problem on Synology NAS

After upgrading my Synology NAS to DSM 4.0, ipkg stopped working. When I executed:

/opt/bin/ipkg update

it failed with this:

Downloading http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/optware/syno-e500/cross/unstable/Packages.gz
ipkg: /opt/ipkg-Rq65Jx/Packages.gz: No such file or directory
file_copy: ERROR: failed to copy /opt/ipkg-Rq65Jx/Packages.gz to /tmp/ipkg.ePVFQ7/cross.gz
An error ocurred, return value: 1.

after some debugging and googling, I found the cause to ipkg using a wrong version of wget. My system apparently has two wget binaries, one in /usr/syno/bin and one in /opt/bin. I need ipkg to grab the one in /opt/bin, like this in .profile:

PATH=...blah..what is was before..
PATH=/opt/bin:$PATH
export PATH

Reload .profile (or simply login and logout), and do a which wget to check you are getting the right one. Now proceed with ipkg update.

November 23, 2012 В· polesen В· No Comments
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