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Topic: About making ipk package

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Hello all,
Hope I have posted it in the right place. I am learning to use the openwrt build system.As a test,I have downloaded nano editor source and compiled it using that toolchain(I know nano is available via package but I wanted to build it as an external source).Now I want to install it in my machine,preferably by making an ipk package.How do I do that?
Thanks in dvance

I don't think you're  the right place, because your're not developing. Apart from that: you wil find the nano-xxxxx.ipk in your build_dir bin/xxxxx/packages/......

Copy the file to your router (see here http://www.xinotes.net/notes/note/1452/ for how to use scp) and install using 'opkg install'. Use the --noaction switch to check for errors and missing dependencies.

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