apk package manager
DO NOT USE apk upgrade to update your packages!
Doing so will sooner or later brick your device. Several library packages have as-yet unhandled ABI versioned names, which will cause a misconfiguration if you blindly upgrade them (libubus, libustream and many others).
The safe way to upgrade all packages is to use one of the ASU clients: LuCI Attended Sysupgrade, owut or Firmware Selector.
APK is the package manager originally developed by Alpine Linux and used on OpenWrt development snapshots. Note it has nothing to do with Android or other systems that may use the same acronym.
Useful references:
Needs some info about OpenWrt's apk version 3, whereas Alpine Linux still using apk version 2, so there internal/external differences etc.
Invocation
Package manipulation
Informational commands
Options
Examples
Basics
Extras
Upgrading packages
Executing the command
apk update
will update the package database from a list of repositories that you can view with the command
cat /etc/apk/repositories.d/distfeeds.list
In that file, lines starting with # are comments; the rest are URLs pointing to package databases, typically under https://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/targets/
Once the database of available packages has been updated, you can execute the command
apk upgrade
to upgrade all installed packages that are not up to date.
Configuration
Adjust repositories
Local repositories
Change architectures
Proxy support
Troubleshooting
Out of space
Local repository
Non-standard installation destinations
Known Issues
apk adbdumpproduces non-standard YAML in certain edge cases. If you run into this, please report it here.