====== Prepare OpenWRT 23.05.x on Ubuntu 22.04 ======
===== Prepare The System =====
  * This page will cover the preparation work for you to be able to build OpenWRT with the MESHdesk packages included.
  * The SDK and build process will require ~30-40G of hard drive space.
  * Install the required packages to ensure the SDK can build the firmware.

<code bash>
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install build-essential subversion git-core libncurses5-dev zlib1g-dev gawk flex quilt libssl-dev xsltproc libxml-parser-perl unzip mercurial
</code>
==== Location for the SDK ====

  * Create the location for the SDK
  * Our suggestion is to create a folder that will indicate the version of the firmware you'll be building.
  * You need to do this as a normal Linux user (not root).
  * Here we create a folder for the **23.05.2** release.

<code bash>
# Create the working directory 
mkdir 23.05.2
# Change to our working directory 
cd 23.05.2
</code>

===== Checkout the SDK =====
  * Do a clean checkout of the OpenWrt repository.
<code bash>
git clone https://git.openwrt.org/openwrt/openwrt.git
</code>
  * This repository has various branches. To see which branches are available and which one we are currently set to use, issue the following command.
<code bash>
#We may first need to change our directory to the openwrt directory
cd openwrt
git branch -a
#Also to see the tags 
git tag -l
</code>
  * We will be checking out the **v23.05.2** tag.
<code bash>
git checkout v23.05.2
</code>
  * Confirm that this **v23.05.2** is now checked out.
<code bash>
git branch
</code>
  * Update the package feeds.
<code bash>
./scripts/feeds update
</code>

===== Install the required packages =====
  * Ensure the following packages are installed since they are required by the MESHdesk package.
<code bash>
./scripts/feeds install coova-chilli
./scripts/feeds install luasocket
./scripts/feeds install libuci-lua
./scripts/feeds install curl
./scripts/feeds install -a -p routing 
./scripts/feeds install iwinfo
./scripts/feeds install luci
./scripts/feeds install luci-theme-material
./scripts/feeds install mosquitto
./scripts/feeds install lua-mosquitto
#For backward compatibility in 23.05 with older Luci libs
./scripts/feeds install luci-compat
#Add the iptables translator package to translate iptables to nftables
./scripts/feeds install  iptables-nft
#Add these Luci packages
./scripts/feeds install luci-lib-nixio
./scripts/feeds install luci-lib-jsonc
./scripts/feeds install luci-lib-json
./scripts/feeds install luci-lib-httpprotoutils
./scripts/feeds install luci-lib-httpclient
./scripts/feeds install luci-lib-base
#If you are going to implement OpenVPN tunnels
./scripts/feeds install openvpn-openssl
</code>
  * Everything is now prepared for us to add the MESHdesk package.

[[technical:openwrt-meshdesk|OpenWRT 23.05.x with MESHdesk packages]]