Explore the Unlimited Possibilities of Your NAS with QPKG

The Network Attached Storage (NAS) used to refer to a basic network storage device for simple data sharing but now with the high performance SoC and the advantage in power-saving design, it is redefined as a powerful embedded system that allows the possibilities of offering numerous fascinating applications. Over the past years, QNAP has successfully developed a series of All-in-One NAS servers for power users and business users providing a wide variety of software applications. Besides those QNAP provides, many other software packages are also developed in Linux open source community that power users are able to install them on their NAS to further enrich the functions. However, this is only limited to those advanced users or software developers who are more familiar with Linux systems. In order to let majority of general QNAP NAS users to also utilize their NAS servers with those software packages already developed by the open source community, QPKG platform and development framework is then introduced by QNAP.

Inspired from the powerful software package management system in Linux (yum, dpkg, etc.), but unlike those running in the modern PCs today, QPKG is designed and fine-tuned for running on Linux embedded systems like NAS along with many popular software packages ready for install. Besides, in order to publish your software in our official repository all the software packages will be verified by QNAP to prevent from others to embed malicious codes for system intrusion or potential risks of data damage. Therefore QNAP NAS users may enjoy these software packages developed by the community in a safe way through an installation method as easy as firmware update just like you would install/uninstall software in the Windows environment without the need to go through the complicated process.

QNAP has introduced some popular QPKG software packages as the demonstration purpose. Below are the quick introductions on each of them:

Name	Description
MLDonkey (eMule)	MLDonkey (eMule) is a door to the 'donkey' network, a decentralized network used to exchange big files on the Internet and present most features of the basic Windows donkey client. (e.g., eMule)
Name	Description
Slim Server on Turbo Station (with SqueezeCenter 7)	Squeeze Center is the server software from Slim Device that manages common digital audio formats (.mp3, .flac, .ogg, etc.) and streams them to its players. Slim Server On Turbo Station (SSOTS) developed by flipflip is an add-on to the Turbo Station's firmware which provides the environment to run Squeeze Center 7 on it.
Name	Description
Optware Ipkg (Itsy Package Management System)	Ipkg, or the Itsy Package Management System, is a lightweight package management system designed for embedded devices. It is used in the Unslung operating system for the Linksys NSLU2, in OpenWRT, OpenMoko, Gumstix, iPAQ and now on QNAP NAS too.
Name	Description
SABnzbd+	SABnzbd+ is a multi-platform binary newsgroup downloader written in Python language. The program works in the background and simplifies the downloading, verifying and extracting of files from Usenet. SABnzbd+ does not search for files, instead NZB files (similar to .torrent files, but for Usenet) are fed to SABnzbd+ from sites like newzbin.com, binsearch.info and tvnzb.com (Requires prior installation of Python)
Name	Description
Python	Python is a general-purpose, high-level programming language. Its design philosophy emphasizes programmer productivity and code readability.
Name	Description
WordPress	WordPress is a free, open-source personal publishing system that allows you to easily create a complex blog, or web log, on your site. Written in PHP and supported by a MySQL database, WordPress offers intuitive administrative tools and sophisticated design features that make it easy to develop and integrate a personal or professional blog on your site.
Name	Description
Joomla	Joomla! is a free, open source content management system for publishing content on the world wide web and intranets. The system includes features such as page caching to improve performance, RSS feeds, printable versions of pages, news flashes, blogs, polls, website searching, and language internationalization.
Name	Description
phpMyAdmin	phpMyAdmin is an open source tool written in PHP intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the Internet. Currently it can create and drop databases, create/drop/alter tables, delete/edit/add fields, execute any SQL statement, and manage keys on fields.

QPKG platform is currently available on TS-109/209/409 Turbo NAS series and will soon be available on the TS-101/201 series as well.

For QNAP NAS user
You can find a list of currently available software packages and its description of usage by clicking the button 'Get QPKG' from 'System Tools' -> 'QPKG' in the administration web page.

We have packaged several popular software applications as the demonstration of the QPKG platform and users may download and install them as if you would update the system firmware as usual. Once installed you can browse the software that is currently installed on the NAS and to 'Enable' and 'Disable' the service or 'Remove' them.

For Developer
QPKG framework and develop guideline is now in its beta stage, developers who are interested in participate can obtain more information from here. During the beta period you can contact us for publishing your software package in the forum to let other users to try out your work and at the same time refining and bug fixing your software. More information will be announced soon.

Disclaimer:

1. QPKG is an open platform for software installation. All the software kit of QPKG is developed for open source community and the intellectual property of the same is owned by the original developer(s).
2. All the software kit of QPKG shall be used for legal sharing or downloading. Users shall comply with the local law or regulations and in no event will QNAP be liable to any users' illegal download or use of software kit of QPKG