ipkg

ipkg, or the Itsy Package Management System, is a discontinued lightweight package management system designed for embedded devices that resembles Debian's dpkg. It was used in the Unslung operating system for the Linksys NSLU2 (Optware), in OpenWrt, Openmoko, webOS, Gumstix, the iPAQ, QNAP NAS appliances and elsewhere; as of early 2017 it can still be used for the Synology NAS appliances and in the LuneOS operating system (although opkg is an increasingly common replacement).

ipkg

Developer(s)	Carl Worth, Steve Ayer, Jamey Hicks
Stable release	0.99.163 / May 30, 2006
Repository	cvs.handhelds.org
Written in	C
Operating system	Linux
Type	Package management system
License	GPL v2
Website	ipkg - the Itsy Package Management System at the Wayback Machine (archived August 23, 2010)

As usual for package management systems, ipkg's ipkg command-line utility allows installation of new packages, upgrading or removal of existing packages, querying package repositories for available packages, and listing already installed packages.

The development for this project has been discontinued. Many projects which formerly used ipkg have adopted the ipkg fork opkg as the replacement.

References

External links

• ipkg - the Itsy Package Management System at the Wayback Machine (archived August 23, 2010)
• IpkgFind: Your familiar search engine at the Wayback Machine (archived March 27, 2013)