Apr 292012
I like my NAS and it works well, especially for what I bought it for (NFS). I found out, there is no “locate” command though. I use that a lot, so was looking for a way to get it. There’s no official package for it, but there is an unofficial method: use ipkg. See here and here for instructions.
One script installation, a modification of /root/.profile and a reboot later, and the usual ipkg interface is available:
cd /volume1/@tmp wget http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/optware/syno-x07/cross/unstable/syno-x07-bootstrap_1.2-7_arm.xsh chmod a+x syno-x07-bootstrap_1.2-7_arm.xsh sh syno-x07-bootstrap_1.2-7_arm.xsh cp -p /root/.profile /root/.profile.bak sed 's/\(.*PATH.*\)/#\1/' </root/.profile.bak >/root/.profile reboot
ipkg update ipkg list | grep locate ipkg install mlocate updatedb
and now I can find my own stuff again!