owut is command line tool that upgrades your router's firmware. It creates and installs custom builds of OpenWrt retaining all of the currently installed packages and configuration.
Follow along or participate in the owut package discussion on the OpenWrt forum.
Warning
As of 2024-06-26, the dependency ucode-mod-uclient is only available on SNAPSHOT, so if you are running release version 23.05 or earlier, you cannot install owut.
owut is a standard OpenWrt package, making installation quite simple.
# If using opkg package manager:
opkg update && opkg install owut
# If using apk package manager:
apk --update-cache add owutOr, for the hardy or adventurous, install from source:
opkg update
opkg install attendedsysupgrade-common rpcd-mod-file ucode ucode-mod-fs \
ucode-mod-ubus ucode-mod-uci ucode-mod-uclient ucode-mod-uloop
[ ! -d /usr/share/ucode/utils/ ] && mkdir -p /usr/share/ucode/utils/
wget -O /usr/share/ucode/utils/argparse.uc https://raw.githubusercontent.com/efahl/owut/main/files/argparse.uc
wget -O /usr/bin/owut https://raw.githubusercontent.com/efahl/owut/main/files/owut
chmod x /usr/bin/owutShort documentation is available on your device, use owut --help
Full documentation is available in the OpenWrt wiki at owut: OpenWrt Upgrade Tool
Packaging in https://github.com/openwrt/packages/blob/master/utils/owut/Makefile
SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only