AR300M with openwrt firmware 2.264: no adblock in repository

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The repository /openwrt/ar71xx_nand/2.264/ for my AR300M does not contain any adblock package. Why?

The repositoy /openwrt/ramips/2.264/ for my MT300A does contain adblock packages. Why?

I’ve check the two adblock package files adblock and luci-app-adblock. Both packages install shell scripts and HTML files, no binary files: The program “file” gives the following output:

file $(opkg files adblock | grep -v ^Package)
/usr/bin/adblock-helper.sh: POSIX shell script, ASCII text executable
/etc/hotplug.d/iface/90-adblock: POSIX shell script, ASCII text executable
/www/adblock/index.html: HTML document, ASCII text
/etc/adblock/adblock.conf.default: ASCII text
/etc/config/adblock: ASCII text
/etc/adblock/adblock.whitelist: empty
/usr/bin/adblock-update.sh: POSIX shell script, ASCII text executable
/etc/adblock/adblock.blacklist: ASCII text
/etc/init.d/adblock: POSIX shell script, ASCII text executable

file $(opkg files luci-app-adblock | grep -v ^Package)
/usr/lib/lua/luci/controller/adblock.lua: ASCII text
/usr/lib/lua/luci/model/cbi/adblock.lua: HTML document, ASCII text

If I manually transfer the package files adblock and luci-app-adblock from the MT300A to the AR300M and then install them with “opkg install ”, would this procedure do any harm to the AR300M?

Barney

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I tested it by installing from the other repo. Seems to work. It’s just shell scripts and lua. Just install the package from there.

You need:

wget http://download.gl-inet.com.s3.amazonaws.com/openwrt/ramips/2.264/packages/packages/adblock_1.5.4-1_all.ipk
wget http://download.gl-inet.com.s3.amazonaws.com/openwrt/ramips/2.264/packages/luci/luci-app-adblock_git-17.136.58961-13aa5ff-1_all.ipk

opkg install those two and wget with ssl support is needed from the normal repo

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The CPU architecture of MT300A and AR300M are different.

But you can transfer adblock and luci-app-adblock to your AR300M. Then install it manually.