[tosiara]

I have updated my Archer C7 v2 to the latest 35681 and was surprised that "ipkg" is no longer available. Searching on the forum I found suggestions to use "opkg" instead which requires me to have a USB drive.

Question: since which build ipkg has been removed?
How do I supposed to install .ipk files on /jffs now?
Is there a way to get ipkg back manually?

Thanks

[ian5142]

I would suggest using Entware. It has a much more up-to-date package list: https://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Installing_Entware

As for when it was removed, it is probably listed somewhere on the svn: http://svn.dd-wrt.com/timeline

Note, the Archer C7 is Atheros based, so mips.

I looked but could not find it right off the bat.

[tosiara]

Is there a way to install opkg into /jffs without using USB? If not, what would be the official way to get back ipkg?

[ian5142]

In broadcom sometimes there is free space on the flash which can be used to install some packages, this is called JFFS2 space. You can enable it on the Admin page.

I have never seen it working on Atheros though.

[tosiara]

Here is a solution:

1. Download and extract older firmware, ex, https://download1.dd-wrt.com/dd-wrtv2/downloads/betas/2017/10-17-2017-r33525/tplink_archer-c7-v2/tplink_archer-c7-v2.bin
2. Find ipkg at ./bin and ipkg.conf at ./etc
3. Transfer ipkg to your /jffs/bin (use wget or scp)
4. chmod +x ipkg
5. Transfer ipkg.conf to /jffs/etc
6. Start ipkg using: IPKG_CONF_DIR=/jffs/etc /jffs/bin/ipkg install /your/file.ipk