--- a/src/opkg-cl.c
+++ b/src/opkg-cl.c
@@ -169,7 +169,10 @@
 			printf("Confusion: getopt_long returned %d\n", c);
 		}
 	}
-    
+
+	if(!conf->conf_file)
+		conf->conf_file = "/etc/opkg.conf";
+
 	if (parse_err)
 		return parse_err;
 	else