Installing 3rd party software on your Synology DiskStation DS411j Jan 9, 2012 • Note: I recently purchased a & I’m putting up posts about things I figure out. This is part of that series. The Synology DiskStation comes with a pretty darn complete collection of services & software that you can access & use through the DSM, the DiskStation Manager GUI. As I’ve been mentioning, though, you can also SSH into the DiskStation CLI (Command Line Interface) & run commands there.

The DiskStation comes with a large assortment of commands already present, but you can install others as well, which is what I’ll focus on here. You could download source code & compile it, of course, but I’m not going to cover that here (maybe in a later post).

Aug 24, 2013. Today, I will show you how to configure your Synology to set up your own cloud to sync your files between the NAS and other computers like you would. If you are like me, you have a smartphone. And you will install the 'DS Cloud' app using the same IP or url, username and password you already used. Aug 02, 2017 Installing Asterisk On Synology Dsm Downloads It even has HDMI video output so you can connect it directly to your home theater setup.

When I can, I like to take the easy route & install pre-compiled software packages. Fortunately, you can find, install, & manage a very large collection of pre-compiled software packages for your Synology DiskStation using a very cool command line tool called. If you’re familiar with on Debian, you’ll find ipkg to be instantly understandable. For those of you not in the know, ipkg is a package manager: it’s software that connects to a repository, a large collection of software packages, & then makes it easy for you to download, install, update, & remote packages on your Linux box. So let’s install ipkg so we can then install other software on the Synology DiskStation! Now find out which ipkg bootstrap you should get at this page, located on the Synology wiki:.

In my case, the Marvell Kirkwood mv6281 wants this one:. Log in to the DiskStation as root. Cd to the temp directory on volume1: >cd /volume1/@tmp Use wget to download the bootstrap: >wget Make the downloaded bootstrap executable: >chmod 755 syno-mvkw-bootstrap_1.2-7_arm.xsh Run the bootstrap: >./syno-mvkw-bootstrap_1.2-7_arm.xsh Delete the bootstrap, as it’s no longer needed: >rm syno-mvkw-bootstrap_1.2-7_arm.xsh Reboot the DiskStation using the GUI or the CLI. With the GUI, click on the Main Menu (Synology’s term, not mine) & choose Restart. If you’re logged in to the CLI, enter: >restart When the DiskStation comes back up, log in as root & update the ipkg repository: >ipkg update This will give you results like this: Downloading Inflating Updated list of available packages in /opt/lib/ipkg/lists/cross Successfully terminated. • Mac users, think of it as the App Store, but typically for everything on your computer, not just the stuff that Apple has approved.

Gibson Serial Numbers Kalamazoo. Windows users, think of it as the promised App Store that Microsoft says it’s going to include in Windows 8. Sock Template Illustrator Torrent. • I’m giving you the page name because it looks to me like a really crappy page name that somebody typed out on a wiki after about four seconds of thought, meaning that someone else who has more of a clue is going to come along & change the name to something better later. If the link is ever broken, head over to the & search for “install ipkg”. That should find it. • vi comes on the Synology DiskStation by default (it comes on every UNIX by default!), but I vastly prefer vim, as do all right-thinking people everywhere. • Just typing vim works, as /opt/bin is in your path. You can see yours easily; type this.