opkg – Package manager for OpenWrt

Synopsis

• Manages OpenWrt packages

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

• opkg

• python

Parameters

Parameter	Choices/Defaults	Comments
force - added in 2.0	Choices: depends maintainer reinstall overwrite downgrade space postinstall remove checksum removal-of-dependent-packages Default: "absent"	opkg --force parameter used
name - / required		name of package to install/remove
state -	Choices: present ← absent	state of the package
update_cache boolean	Choices: no ← yes	update the package db first

Examples

- opkg:
    name: foo
    state: present

- opkg:
    name: foo
    state: present
    update_cache: yes

- opkg:
    name: foo
    state: absent

- opkg:
    name: foo,bar
    state: absent

- opkg:
    name: foo
    state: present
    force: overwrite

Status

• This module is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface. [preview]

• This module is maintained by the Ansible Community. [community]

Authors

• Patrick Pelletier (@skinp)

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