Entware Entware update fail: libattr cannot be downloaded

[gjf]

Hi all.

I am facing a problem for a bout a few weeks: when I run opkg update / upgrade I am getting this:

Installing glib2 (2.74.0-1) to root...
Downloading https://bin.entware.net/armv7sf-k2.6/glib2_2.74.0-1_armv7-2.6.ipk
Installing libattr (20170915-1) to root...
Collected errors:
* opkg_download_pkg: Package libattr is not available from any configured src.
* opkg_install_pkg: Failed to download libattr. Perhaps you need to run 'opkg update'?
* opkg_install_cmd: Cannot install package glib2.

Now I see glib2 package was not upgraded. And it's not even installed:

f@Router:/tmp/mnt/swapusb/entware/bin# opkg remove glib2
No packages removed.

At the same time I cannot remove libattr:

f@Router:/tmp/mnt/swapusb/entware/bin# opkg remove libattr --force-remove
No packages removed.

Any ideas how to solve it?

 

[gjf]

Seems solved: have to manually download https://bin.entware.net/armv7sf-k2.6/libattr_2.5.1-3_armv7-2.6.ipk and install it offline.
But I wonder why it cannot be installed online.

 

[Jeffrey Young]

Did you run opkg update first, as suggested by the error message? I have run into this before and have had to update the package list.

 

[John Fitzgerald]

FYI, New Entware Release Today.

 

[gjf]

Did you run opkg update first, as suggested by the error message? I have run into this before and have had to update the package list.

Maybe it sounds surprising but I can read and I did run opkg update before writing the post about the issue.

 

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