Opkg

Last updated
opkg
Developer(s) Alejandro del Castillo, Paul Barker, Thomas Wood, Tick Chen, Graham Gower
Stable release
0.8.0 [1] / 10 January 2025;32 days ago (10 January 2025)
Repository
Written in C
Operating system Linux
Type Package management system
License GPL v2
Website git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/opkg/   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

The opkg (open package management) software is a lightweight package management system based upon ipkg. It is written in C and resembles Advanced Package Tool (APT)/dpkg in operation. It is intended for use on embedded Linux devices and is used in this capacity in the OpenEmbedded and OpenWrt projects. [2]

Opkg was originally forked from ipkg by the Openmoko project. [3] More recently, development of opkg has moved from its old Google Code repository to Yocto Project where it is actively maintained again.

Opkg packages usually use either .ipk or .opk extension.

References

  1. ↑ "opkg - Opkg lightweight package management system".
  2. ↑ "Opkg Package Manager". OpenWrt. 2018-06-23. Retrieved 2018-07-02.
  3. ↑ "Openmoko: Opkg". 2010-06-29. Archived from the original on 2016-10-05. Retrieved 2016-10-03.
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