Winbox

[mwyvr]

I saw your command on Reddit before it was removed by moderators.

WinBox is a proprietary app; distributing it may violate licensing. How I deal with it is through a script that checks for presence and pipes the zip file through bsdtar to extract.

Note that Winbox for linux will not execute on musl libc Linux including Void Linux. On musl I run Winbox for windows using wine64.

[gqtn]

Hi @mwyvr ,

Thank you for being willing to open this point with me. Much appreciated.

I actually thought the license issue could be detrimental, but I thought it wouldn't be that much of a problem since something similar was done for Arch Linux (AUR): https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/winbox

How I deal with it is through a script that checks for presence and pipes the zip file through bsdtar to extract.

I didn't quite understand this part. Could you explain it a little better?

About the musl issue, you are right. I will add a note in my README.md.

[mwyvr]

I actually thought the license issue could be detrimental, but I thought it wouldn't be that much of a problem since something similar was done for Arch Linux (AUR): https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/winbox

Sorry, didn't see your reply. The difference with Void is they don't support "user" repositories at all. In the AUR - a user repo - there are much relaxed rules.

I didn't quite understand this part. Could you explain it a little better?

Here's an extract for Void:

DIRPATH="$HOME/.local/bin"
mkdir -p "$DIRPATH"
# runtime assets directory
cd "$DIRPATH" || exit 1
wget -O - https://download.mikrotik.com/routeros/winbox/4.0beta18/WinBox_Linux.zip | bsdtar -xvf- -C "$DIRPATH"
chmod +x "$DIRPATH/WinBox"

On musl (void or chimera linux), I download the Windows version and run it via wine64.

[gqtn]

Sorry, didn't see your reply. The difference with Void is they don't support "user" repositories at all. In the AUR - a user repo - there are much relaxed rules.

Hm, I got it. Well, I think I can keep the guide for WinBox in my repository. It can help some Void users.

And thank you for your detailed explanation. I'll update the script soon, and maybe create another one for musl version.

I followed you, and if you have any other suggest, just let me know. Really grateful.