BigDiver

If you want to give your TeraStation more power, without having to compile every tool from scratch head over to the the Debian Packages repository and download the packages you need for architecture ARMEL.

This downloads .deb files that need to be converted to .tgz before you can install them in your TeraStation. This is easily done on any Linux box by running alien.

wget http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/a/apt/apt_0.7.14_armel.deb
alien --to-tgz --scripts apt_0.7.14_armel.deb

This creates the file alien-0.7.14.armel.tgz, no copy it to your TeraStation with scp, or use one of the TeraStation’s file shares

scp apt-0.7.14_armel.tgz user@terastation_ip:/mnt/array1/share_name
ssh user@terasation_ip
cd /mnt/array1/share_name
tar zxf apt-0.7.14_armel.tgz

Now you are ready to install to run or install this package. You may need to install some additional shared libraries.

Using this method a little patience I was able to get a fully operational SVN server on my TeraStation. I will post the details and the full procedure soon.

It would be great to have full apt suite working, in order to resolve the package dependencies easily. I leave the installation of full apt suite as a challenge to the next dedicated user