[ET7x00] Download old packages

[edster]

It's been a while since I've played with this receiver as it was working well until a factory reset was accidentally performed on it, and now a bouquet editor cannot connect to it.

I've managed to enable ssh (by setting a password), but the bouquet editor requires sftp, which is not available.

A quick search on this forum gave me the opkg command, but it cannot find anything probably because my ViX version is 7 years old:

root@et7x00:~# opkg install openssh-sftp-server
Installing openssh-sftp-server (7.2p2-r0) on root.
Downloading http://www.openvix.co.uk/feeds/openvix/release/4.2/et7x00/mips32el/openssh-sftp-server_7.2p2-r0_mips32el.ipk.
wget: server returned error: HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
Collected errors:
 * opkg_download_backend: Failed to download http://www.openvix.co.uk/feeds/openvix/release/4.2/et7x00/mips32el/openssh-sftp-server_7.2p2-r0_mips32el.ipk, wget returned 1.
 * opkg_install_pkg: Failed to download openssh-sftp-server. Perhaps you need to run 'opkg update'?
 * opkg_install: Cannot install package openssh-sftp-server.

root@et7x00:~# opkg update
Downloading http://www.openvix.co.uk/feeds/openvix/release/4.2/et7x00/3rdparty/Packages.gz.
wget: server returned error: HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
Downloading http://www.openvix.co.uk/feeds/openvix/release/4.2/et7x00/all/Packages.gz.
wget: server returned error: HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
Downloading http://www.openvix.co.uk/feeds/openvix/release/4.2/et7x00/et7x00/Packages.gz.
wget: server returned error: HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
Downloading http://www.openvix.co.uk/feeds/openvix/release/4.2/et7x00/et7x00_3rdparty/Packages.gz.
wget: server returned error: HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
Downloading http://www.openvix.co.uk/feeds/openvix/release/4.2/et7x00/mips32el/Packages.gz.
wget: server returned error: HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
Collected errors:
 * opkg_download_backend: Failed to download http://www.openvix.co.uk/feeds/openvix/release/4.2/et7x00/3rdparty/Packages.gz, wget returned 1.
 * opkg_download_backend: Failed to download http://www.openvix.co.uk/feeds/openvix/release/4.2/et7x00/all/Packages.gz, wget returned 1.
 * opkg_download_backend: Failed to download http://www.openvix.co.uk/feeds/openvix/release/4.2/et7x00/et7x00/Packages.gz, wget returned 1.
 * opkg_download_backend: Failed to download http://www.openvix.co.uk/feeds/openvix/release/4.2/et7x00/et7x00_3rdparty/Packages.gz, wget returned 1.
 * opkg_download_backend: Failed to download http://www.openvix.co.uk/feeds/openvix/release/4.2/et7x00/mips32el/Packages.gz, wget returned 1.

1. Is there a way to get this package or
2. Is there a more recent version of ViX that supports my receiver?

Thanks!

 

[Huevos]

Sorry, but we no longer maintain an image or feeds for the ET7x00. You would need to build your own feeds.

 

[birdman]

It's possible that the sftp-server from a current distro with the same architecture might work. It only seems to depend on libc as a shared library.

So you could download http://www.openvix.co.uk/feeds/open...2el/openssh-sftp-server_9.1p1-r0_mips32el.ipk and try installing that.

 

[edster]

Looks like I'm going to have to get into the weeds or find an image that supports my elderly hardware:

root@et7x00:~# opkg install http://www.openvix.co.uk/feeds/openvix/release/6.3/et8000/mips32el/openssh-sftp-server_9.1p1-r0_mips32el.ipk
Downloading http://www.openvix.co.uk/feeds/openvix/release/6.3/et8000/mips32el/openssh-sftp-server_9.1p1-r0_mips32el.ipk.
Installing openssh-sftp-server (9.1p1-r0) on root.
Collected errors:
 * pkg_extract_data_file_names_to_stream: Failed to extract data.tar.gz from package '/var/cache/opkg/c8223832a64e90fbd512afd7824fc827_openssh-sftp-server_9.1p1-r0_mips32el.ipk'.
 * pkg_get_installed_files: Error extracting file list from /var/cache/opkg/c8223832a64e90fbd512afd7824fc827_openssh-sftp-server_9.1p1-r0_mips32el.ipk.
 * opkg_install: Cannot install package openssh-sftp-server.

 

[abu baniaz]

You may want to try ATV. Best wait till Sunday morning as they have recently done something for boxes with small flash space or those with enough space but bootloader does not allow larger images flashed by USB (but fine when flashed by ofgwrite).

http://images.mynonpublic.com/openatv/current/index.php?open=et7x00

 

[birdman]

Looks like I'm going to have to get into the weeds or find an image that supports my elderly hardware:

root@et7x00:~# opkg install http://www.openvix.co.uk/feeds/openvix/release/6.3/et8000/mips32el/openssh-sftp-server_9.1p1-r0_mips32el.ipk
Downloading http://www.openvix.co.uk/feeds/openvix/release/6.3/et8000/mips32el/openssh-sftp-server_9.1p1-r0_mips32el.ipk.
Installing openssh-sftp-server (9.1p1-r0) on root.
Collected errors:
 * pkg_extract_data_file_names_to_stream: Failed to extract data.tar.gz from package '/var/cache/opkg/c8223832a64e90fbd512afd7824fc827_openssh-sftp-server_9.1p1-r0_mips32el.ipk'.
 * pkg_get_installed_files: Error extracting file list from /var/cache/opkg/c8223832a64e90fbd512afd7824fc827_openssh-sftp-server_9.1p1-r0_mips32el.ipk.
 * opkg_install: Cannot install package openssh-sftp-server.

That looks like a change in the package format (it says it can't extract data.tar.gz - which is true, as it's now actually data.tar.xz - not that it couldn't install the contents).

Here is that file (as a *.gz file).

View attachment data.tar.gz

If you copy this onto your system, cd to / and extract the constants (tar xvf .../data.tar.gz) it will install the only two items, which are:

• /usr/libexec/sftp-server
• /usr/lib/openssh/sftp-server (a symlink to /usr/libexec/sftp-server)

If it works, fine. If not, just delete those two entries.