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Prepare OpenWRT 22.03.x on Ubuntu 22.04
Prepare The System
- This page will cover the preparation work for you to be able to build OpenWRT with the MESHdesk packages included.
- The SDK and build process will require ~30-40G of hard drive space.
- Install the required packages to ensure the SDK can build the firmware.
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install build-essential subversion git-core libncurses5-dev zlib1g-dev gawk flex quilt libssl-dev xsltproc libxml-parser-perl unzip mercurial
Location for the SDK
- Create the location for the SDK
- Our suggestion is to create a folder that will indicate the version of the firmware you'll be building.
- You need to do this as a normal Linux user (not root).
- Here we create a folder for the 22.03.0 release.
# Create the working directory mkdir 22.03.0 # Change to our working directory cd 22.03.0
Checkout the SDK
- Do a clean checkout of the OpenWrt repository.
git clone https://git.openwrt.org/openwrt/openwrt.git
- This repository has various branches. To see which branches are available and which one we are currently set to use, issue the following command.
#We may first need to change our directory to the openwrt directory cd openwrt git branch -a #Also to see the tags git tag -l
- We will be checking out the v22.03.0 tag.
git checkout v22.03.0
- Confirm that this v22.03.0 is now checked out.
git branch
- Update the package feeds.
./scripts/feeds update
Install the required packages
- Ensure the following packages are installed since they are required by the MESHdesk package.
./scripts/feeds install coova-chilli ./scripts/feeds install luasocket ./scripts/feeds install libuci-lua ./scripts/feeds install curl ./scripts/feeds install -a -p routing ./scripts/feeds install iwinfo ./scripts/feeds install luci ./scripts/feeds install luci-theme-material ./scripts/feeds install mosquitto ./scripts/feeds install lua-mosquitto #For backward compatibility in 22.03 with older Luci libs ./scripts/feeds install luci-compat #Add the iptables translator package to translate iptables to nftables ./scripts/feeds install iptables-nft
- Everything is now prepared for us to add the MESHdesk package.