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====== Prepare OpenWRT 24.10.x on Ubuntu 24.04 ======
===== Prepare The System =====
  * This page describes the preparations you need to make in order to build OpenWRT with the included MESHdesk packages.
  * The SDK and the build process require ~30-40G of disk space.
  * Install the required packages to ensure that 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>
==== Storage location for the SDK ====

  * Create the location for the SDK
  * We recommend that you create a folder that contains the version of the firmware you are going to build.
  * You must do this as a normal Linux user (not root).
  * Here we create a folder for version **24.10.1**.

<code bash>
# Create the working directory 
mkdir 24.10.1
# Change to our working directory 
cd 24.10.1
</code>

===== Check out the SDK =====
  * Perform a clean checkout of the OpenWrt repository.
<code bash>
git clone https://git.openwrt.org/openwrt/openwrt.git
</code>
  * This repository has different branches. To see which branches are available and which one we are currently using, enter the following command.
<code bash>
#First we may 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 checkout the tag **24.10.1**.
<code bash>
git checkout 24.10.1
</code>
  * Confirm that this **24.10.1** is now checked out.
<code bash>
git branch
</code>
  * Update the package feeds.
<code bash>
./scripts/feeds update
</code>

===== Install the required packages =====
  * Make sure the following packages are installed as they are required for 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 24.10 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
#If you are going to do Hotspot 2.0
./scripts/feeds install iw-full
#If you will use SQM/CAKE for bandwidth limiting and controlling Buffer Bloat
./scripts/feeds install sqm-scripts
./scripts/feeds install luci-app-sqm
#If you will implement the Multi-WAN functionality
./scripts/feeds install mwan3
./scripts/feeds install luci-app-mwan3
#With Multi-WAN you might need the LTE related packages
./scripts/feeds install usb-modeswitch
./scripts/feeds install picocom
./scripts/feeds install uqmi
./scripts/feeds install kmod-usb-net-cdc-mbim
./scripts/feeds install kmod-usb-net-qmi-wwan
./scripts/feeds install kmod-usb-serial-option 
./scripts/feeds install kmod-usb-serial-qualcomm
./scripts/feeds install kmod-usb-serial-sierrawireless
./scripts/feeds install kmod-usb-wdm 
./scripts/feeds install qmi-utils
./scripts/feeds install libqmi
./scripts/feeds install luci-proto-qmi
</code>
  * Now everything is ready to add the MESHdesk package.

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