How to manually extract/upload an IPK file to a Dreambox.

As I have no one to create my .deb files at the moment and relying on the kindness of others when they have time.

Here are instructions on how to use the IPK files to upload to your Dreambox device.

It isn't difficult please just have a go without constantly asking for the .deb file.

Download 7zip.

https://www.7-zip.org/download.html

Download the IPK

Locate your downloaded IPK and right click... open with

Check "Always use this app to open .ipk"

If 7zip file manager is not an option.

Click "look for another app on this PC."

C:\Program Files\7-Zip

or

C:\Program Files (x86)\7-Zip

select

7zFM.exe

First open you will get this screen

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Double click the data.tar.gz (the largest folder)

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Double click data.tar

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Double click the . folder

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These folders now need copying over to your box.

If using Samba open your network drive in Windows File Explorer

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Select Root Folder

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Drag your 7zip folders into this root folder.
Reboot your GUI.

If using FTP software. Log into your box.
Copy the 7Zip folders to a temporary location on your computer.
Upload these folders to root /

Reboot your GUI.

if you follow the instructions and keep extracting the .tar folder upto the . folder

then you just copy whatever is in . folder to root

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for example most ipks will just have usr folder

copy that over to your device root "/" (top level folder)

if you look in root folder. You will see there is already a usr folder

so copying a usr folder over to root, will just add to that existing usr folder

either copy usr folder to root "\"

or copy the content of usr folder into your boxes usr folder.

Then reboot gui.

This plugin runs in the background, so no interface if I remember correctly.

It just tries to restart a stream if its stopped.

So the only way to test it, is to see if your streams don't stop.

Tell a lie, looking at the code, it does seem to have an interface where you turn it on.

<setupxml>
  <setup key="quarterpounder" title="QuarterPounder Setup">
    <item level="0" text="QuarterPounder" description="Version information.">config.plugins.quarterpounder.version</item>
    <item level="0" text="Enable" description="Enable or disable.">config.plugins.quarterpounder.enable</item>
    <item level="0" text="Ignore Strings (comma separated list)" description="Ignore services which contain any of the strings in their URL and/or description (empty resets to default).">config.plugins.quarterpounder.ignore_strings</item>
    <item level="0" text="Restart Delay (seconds)" description="Minimum interval between restarts (either our own or due to zapping).">config.plugins.quarterpounder.restart_delay</item>
    <item level="0" text="Restart Indicator" description="How to indicate a restart has occurred.">config.plugins.quarterpounder.restart_indicator</item>
    <item level="0" text="Stuck Channels Hack" description="Hack around stuck DVB channels.">config.plugins.quarterpounder.stuck_hack</item>
    <item level="0" text="Stuck Channels Hack Delay" description="Hack around stuck DVB channels.">config.plugins.quarterpounder.stuck_delay</item>
    <item level="0" text="Debug" description="Activate debug log.">config.plugins.quarterpounder.debug</item>
  </setup>
</setupxml>

There is only a handful of files, no harm in changing them to 755

It's not my plugin so dont know what needs execution/read writes

There is no etc files in that plugin is there. Doesn't it all live in usr folder.

What issues are you still having? Any.

I think you will be fine. Only ever going to be an issue if the plugin doesn't run . Then you go investigating why. Permissions of a file is always a good place to start.

No point making work for yourself.

But if you manually extract an ipk you know where to look anyway, because you can see where it is uploading files to.

Control files are used when installing an IPK. Not directly need if manuallly copying over.

Make sure you are copying files over to the correct location. From what you are writing it sounds like you are doing this incorrectly.

The folder structure in an ipk file goes into the root. Not in specific folder.

Unless you are copying folder to folder.

if you have gone all the way to extensions folder in the ipk then yes, extensions folder on your box is correct

Gurman2000

I have ran into this problem before and it might have actually been with this plugin.

Firstly make sure you are using the latest 7zip

Try changing the extension to .zip

if that fails try changing the extension to .rar

if that fails try universal extractor

https://www.legroom.net/software/uniextract#download