community.general.opkg – Package manager for OpenWrt

Note

This plugin is part of the community.general collection (version 3.8.1).

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.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.opkg.

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 string	Choices: depends maintainer reinstall overwrite downgrade space postinstall remove checksum removal-of-dependent-packages	opkg --force parameter used
name string / required		name of package to install/remove aliases: pkg
state string	Choices: present ← absent installed removed	state of the package
update_cache boolean	Choices: no ← yes	update the package db first Alias `update-cache` has been deprecated and will be removed in community.general 5.0.0. aliases: update-cache

Examples

- name: Install foo
  community.general.opkg:
    name: foo
    state: present

- name: Update cache and install foo
  community.general.opkg:
    name: foo
    state: present
    update_cache: yes

- 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

Authors

Patrick Pelletier (@skinp)

© 2012–2018 Michael DeHaan
© 2018–2021 Red Hat, Inc.
Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/community/general/opkg_module.html

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