--- a/src/opkg-cl.c
+++ b/src/opkg-cl.c
@@ -172,7 +172,10 @@
 			printf("Confusion: getopt_long returned %d\n", c);
 		}
 	}
-    
+
+	if(!conf->conf_file)
+		conf->conf_file = xstrdup("/etc/opkg.conf");
+
 	if (parse_err)
 		return parse_err;
 	else