System Package - Install new package

RouterOS General
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Hi.

Mikrotik already has a great system for upgrading RouterOS versions via the routerboard itself (/system packages update)

What I would really like is the ability to use the same infrastructure to install additional packages, I dont know why but I SFP an extra packages to ±1000 routers and about 20 of them brick during the process, the rest of fine. It would be great to tell the board to install tr069 or gps or whatever package I want in a similar fashion to the upgrade model, has Mikrotik got any plans to do this?

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I maintain a collection of scripts for managing and extending functionality: RouterOS Scripts

This includes a function to download packages… So if the script are set up you can install additional packages like this:

[admin@MikroTik] > $DownloadPackage wireless
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      status: finished
  downloaded: 2824KiB
       total: 2824KiB
    duration: 1s

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 [admin@MikroTik] > /file print where name~"wireless"
 # NAME                   TYPE                        SIZE CREATION-TIME       
 0 wireless-6.44.3-arm... package                2824.1KiB may/03/2019 10:02:32

Then just reboot and you are done.