community.general.opkg module – Package manager for OpenWrt and Openembedded/Yocto based Linux distributions
Note
This module is part of the community.general collection (version 9.4.0).
You might already have this collection installed if you are using the ansible
package.
It is not included in ansible-core
.
To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list
.
To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.general
.
You need further requirements to be able to use this module,
see Requirements for details.
To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.opkg
.
Synopsis
Manages ipk packages for OpenWrt and Openembedded/Yocto based Linux distributions
Requirements
The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.
opkg
python
Parameters
Parameter |
Comments |
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The executable location for |
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The Passing Choices:
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Name of package(s) to install/remove.
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State of the package. Choices:
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Update the package DB first. Choices:
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Attributes
Attribute |
Support |
Description |
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Support: none |
Can run in |
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Support: none |
Will return details on what has changed (or possibly needs changing in |
Examples
- name: Install foo
community.general.opkg:
name: foo
state: present
- name: Install foo in version 1.2 (opkg>=0.3.2 on Yocto based Linux distributions)
community.general.opkg:
name: foo=1.2
state: present
- name: Update cache and install foo
community.general.opkg:
name: foo
state: present
update_cache: true
- name: Remove foo
community.general.opkg:
name: foo
state: absent
- name: Remove foo and bar
community.general.opkg:
name:
- foo
- bar
state: absent
- name: Install foo using overwrite option forcibly
community.general.opkg:
name: foo
state: present
force: overwrite