How can we enable UCI interface available on openwrt on ubuntu. - ubuntu-14.04

Question

How can we enable UCI interface available on openwrt on ubuntu. Currently, I installed libuci and libubox, with which I am able to get and set configuration parameters for files under /etc/config in ubuntu. But these values are not reflected in system services when I do a service restart. For example I set some values in /etc/config/network and /etc/config/dhcp . But /etc/init.d/networking reload, the system is picking up values from /etc/dnsmasq.conf and /etc/network/interfaces.

Answer 1

You can run uci in Ubuntu by following the instructions available in (external link). Make UCI in UBUNTU 16.04 , Raspbian Jessie or similar.
First make a directory for download source codes
mkdir ~/Desktop/uci
Install json-c
Install the required packages:
sudo apt-get install dh-autoreconf git
Download source code:
cd ~/Desktop/uci
git clone https://github.com/json-c/json-c.git
Make and install json-c:
cd json-c
sh ./autogen.sh
./configure
make
sudo make install
make check
Install libubox
Install the required packages:
sudo apt-get install lua5.1 liblua5.1-0-dev cmake
Download source code:
cd ~/Desktop/uci
git clone https://git.openwrt.org/project/libubox.git
Install libubox
cd libubox
cmake .
make
sudo make install
Install uci
Download source code:
cd ~/Desktop/uci
git clone https://git.openwrt.org/project/uci.git
Make and install uci:
cd uci
cmake .
sudo make install
Now you can use uci :
uci
If you still see this message:
error while loading shared libraries: libubox.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
edit this file:
sudo nano /etc/environment
Add this command into it:
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib
or this file
sudo nano /etc/profile
Add these commands into it:
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
Then restart your computer.