The OpenWrt distributions provide several thousand packages to extend the functionality of your device.

The browseable package lists in this wiki will always show packages available in the latest update of the stable release.

After you have flashed the OpenWrt firmware to your device, you can install additional software packages with the 'opkg' package manager, using either SSH or LuCi:

• Logon using SSH
• Run opkg update once on the command line. This pulls a fresh list of available packages from the OpenWrt online software repositories.
• Run opkg list to display a list of available packages (The list also has a very short comment on each package).
• Run opkg list | grep 'searchterm' to filter the list, only showing packages that contain the word 'searchterm' in either the package name or comment.
• Run opkg install packagename to install any package from that list.
• Run opkg remove packagename to uninstall an installed package.

• LuCi (http://your_device_ip) also provides a graphical GUI for installing additional software packages
• Note that many packages come with optional LuCi GUIs, but you usually need to install a second package, if you want the additional graphical GUI

A quick overview to all available packages, sorted by type, can be seen in the Package Index.

A more comprehensive verbose package table can be found at Package Table.

Packages sorted by instructionset are also available, plus a link table showing which instructionset your device has. Pay attention to the “Package download” column, which is clickable, for more details of a certain processor family.

Information that is no longer relevant to the current stable or snapshot version of OpenWrt. Package indexes and tables in this section are not updated anymore (as the packages in legacy releases won't change).

• LEDE 17.01 package table Package Table
• LEDE 17.01 package index Package Index

• Attitude Adjustment releases and ar71xx platforms are here: http://downloads.openwrt.org/attitude_adjustment/12.09/ar71xx/generic/packages/
• Legacy OpenWrt 10.03.1 'Backfire' and brcm47xx platforms are available here: http://downloads.openwrt.org/backfire/10.03.1/brcm47xx/packages/
• Legacy OpenWrt 8.09.2 'Kamikaze' stable and ar7 platforms are here: http://downloads.openwrt.org/kamikaze/8.09.2/ar7/packages/
• Legacy 'White Russian' packages are still available: http://downloads.openwrt.org/whiterussian/packages/ and the Backport repository.
  

Third party packages are untested and unsupported by OpenWrt, and no warranties are made about their safety or usefulness. They could very well contain backdoors and such. So install only packages from sources, you trust! Please get support for third-party packages from the maintainers of those packages, not the OpenWrt developers.

Common sources for such packages include:

• ipkg.be package tracker
• NSLU2 "optware" - package feed targeted at devices with external storage

There is an OpenWRT LuCI Essentials wiki article section “Minimalistic offline installation”… Minimalistic offline installation