PPA for OpenWrt on Ubuntu.

Of course, OpenWrt programs can't be fully supported on Ubuntu but partially this works. For example uhttpd on Ubuntu works pretty well. To expose /www dir via http:

sudo uhttpd -f -h /www -p 8080 

Also at this moment works jshn and ubus commands.

Install on Ubuntu 18.10

The plugin can be installed in Ubuntu via PPA:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:stokito/openwrt
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt install jsonpath libubox rpcd ubus uci ustream-ssl uhttpd

Build and install from sources

Each OpenWrt package is located in it's own repo and checkout as a sub repository to the directory. The Makefile only triggers cmake for each of the directory in needed order.

To install from sources:

git clone https://github.com/stokito/openwrt-ubuntu.git
cd openwrt-ubuntu
sudo apt install cmake pkg-config lua5.1 liblua5.1-0-dev libjson-c-dev libssl-dev
sudo make install

Dependencies problem

If you would like to build only one package you anyway have to build and install dependencies. All packages have dependency to libubox headers but may be others too. So to build uhttpd:

make libubox/build
sudo make libubox_install
make ubus/build
sudo make ubus_install
make ustream-ssl/build
sudo make ustream-ssl_install
make uhttpd/build

So here we build libubox first and then installed it, then we did the same for ubus and ustream-ssl. And only then we build the uhttpd. Also quite popular is uci:

make uci/build
sudo make uci_install

BTW after that you can build the rest with just

make

And internally will be called the target .all

Or build manually:

make uclient/build
make rpcd/build
make jsonpath/build
make uclient/build
make mountd/build

Debian/Ubuntu packages

To build *.deb packages use:

debuild

You'll see "This package has a Debian revision number but there does not seem to be appropriate original tar file" then press yes and after build check the parent directory for the built *.deb files.

Upload to PPA

It's not so easy to do that but try:

debuild -S -I -sa
dput ppa:stokito/openwrt ../openwrt_*_source.changes

The -S means create only sources package and -I needed to ignore .git directory.

Update sources

Also you can update sources of all sub repositories:

make pull

uhttpd start with ubus

sudo ubus
sudo rpcd
sudo uhttpd -f -h /www -p 80 -u /ubus

Similar project

• http://www.debwrt.net/
• https://twitter.com/DebWrt

Related articles

• https://code.launchpad.net/~stokito/openwrt/+git/openwrt
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31179509/install-luci-on-ubuntu-instead-of-openwrt
• https://mondwan.blogspot.com/2015/06/how-to-setup-luci-web-framework-with.html
• https://github.com/mmaraya/uhttpd2/commits/master
• https://forum.ubuntu.ru/index.php?topic=276156.0
• https://mondwan.blogspot.com/2014/06/install-luci-on-ubuntu-1204.html
• http://www.wakoond.hu/2013/06/using-uci-on-ubuntu.html

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