Hi all
I accidentally turned my ipk files into 7zip files howdo i turn them back to ipk files please.
Any help appreciated have alot ofipk files which at moment are useless for my box
Thanks
eggie
Hi all
I accidentally turned my ipk files into 7zip files howdo i turn them back to ipk files please.
Any help appreciated have alot ofipk files which at moment are useless for my box
Thanks
eggie
Well they are not useless, if you extract them all the way you will end up with a folder structure for where you can FTP the contents to.
That wont help for dependencies though
You could also repack the ipk's
How to : Create IPK File On Enigma2 Based Receivers
But if it were me i would look into downloading them all again, most are likely to be on the forum anyways
Hi
Thanks for the info the problem i have the opkg tools is also and ipk when i try to download it comes has a zip file where i need it to be an ipk file. When i click on any ipk file firefox asks me where to extract ipk file since it comes has a 7zip file doesnt matter which ipk i try an download all come as a zip file and when extractewd only have 3 files control.tar, data.tar and debian.binary.
I need a way to turn zip ipk files back to original ipk files since every ipk comes has a zip file.
Thanks
Eggie
7zip can extract these files further === control.tar, data.tar
.tar can still be extracted further, extract it again
then repackage it as i linked you too, that is the only way.
Like i said would be far quicker to download them all again
As for you firefox issue, no idea sorry, i use chrome. Perhaps you have some setting on it somewhere that has .ipk extensions marked as a Zip file
Hi
The problem is everytime i download a ipk file it downloads has a zip file , thats the problem i'm having or i would have downloaded them again.
Thanks
Eggie
Hi
The problem is everytime i download a ipk file it downloads has a zip file , thats the problem i'm having or i would have downloaded them again.
Thanks
Eggie
you must have a setting somewhere that is making that happen mate, i assume your using windows if not google something similar to this:
Are you sure you haven't got default to open .ipk with 7.zip?
Hi DS
I think i defaulted 7zip to open ipk files this morning read a thread about mgcamd to work on ultimo 4k where to unzip ipk files and use telnet to box.
I think that messed my ipk files up and turned them into zip files and now i download ipk file it downloads has a zip file .
Any help appreciated if you can help
Thanks
Eggie
I'm not sure why it would download as zip maybe a setting in the download manager on your internet browser.
What happens if you use Google chrome or internet explorer?
If they work have a look through firefox download settings. Maybe when downloaded rename extension to .ipk
Hi DS
same thing if i use chrome downloads has a zip file somehow i need to find a way to dis associate 7zip with ipk files , but at moment struggling cant find anything on the net.
Thanks
Eggie
Can you take a screen shot of the download name.
Hi DS
Here are the screenshots
Thanks
Eggie
So looking at it the file extensions are .ipk? so you still should be able to send them to your box. It's just that you've set 7zip to open .ipk file types.
Edit just noticed the top pic showing as .zip what happens if you rename it .ipk
Thanks for that try and see what happens let youn know
Eggie
Hi
Thank god your a life saver send a file and it installed .
Thanks for all your help gladly appreciated
Thanks
Eggie
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