community.general.zypper – Manage packages on SUSE and openSUSE

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.zypper.

Synopsis

Manage packages on SUSE and openSUSE using the zypper and rpm tools.
Also supports transactional updates, by running zypper inside /sbin/transactional-update --continue --drop-if-no-change --quiet run.

Requirements

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

zypper >= 1.0 # included in openSUSE >= 11.1 or SUSE Linux Enterprise Server/Desktop >= 11.0
python-xml
rpm

Parameters

Parameter	Choices/Defaults	Comments
allow_vendor_change boolean added in 0.2.0 of community.general	Choices: no ← yes	Adds `--allow_vendor_change` option to zypper dist-upgrade command.
disable_gpg_check boolean	Choices: no ← yes	Whether to disable to GPG signature checking of the package signature being installed. Has an effect only if state is present or latest.
disable_recommends boolean	Choices: no yes ←	Corresponds to the `--no-recommends` option for zypper. Default behavior (`yes`) modifies zypper's default behavior; `no` does install recommended packages.
extra_args string		Add additional options to `zypper` command. Options should be supplied in a single line as if given in the command line.
extra_args_precommand string		Add additional global target options to `zypper`. Options should be supplied in a single line as if given in the command line.
force boolean	Choices: no ← yes	Adds `--force` option to zypper. Allows to downgrade packages and change vendor or architecture.
force_resolution boolean added in 0.2.0 of community.general	Choices: no ← yes	Adds `--force-resolution` option to zypper. Allows to (un)install packages with conflicting requirements (resolver will choose a solution).
name list / elements=string / required		Package name `name` or package specifier or a list of either. Can include a version like `name=1.0`, `name>3.4` or `name<=2.7`. If a version is given, `oldpackage` is implied and zypper is allowed to update the package within the version range given. You can also pass a url or a local path to a rpm file. When using state=latest, this can be '*', which updates all installed packages. aliases: pkg
oldpackage boolean	Choices: no ← yes	Adds `--oldpackage` option to zypper. Allows to downgrade packages with less side-effects than force. This is implied as soon as a version is specified as part of the package name.
replacefiles boolean added in 0.2.0 of community.general	Choices: no ← yes	Adds `--replacefiles` option to zypper install/update command.
state string	Choices: present ← latest absent dist-upgrade installed removed	`present` will make sure the package is installed. `latest` will make sure the latest version of the package is installed. `absent` will make sure the specified package is not installed. `dist-upgrade` will make sure the latest version of all installed packages from all enabled repositories is installed. When using `dist-upgrade`, name should be `'*'`.
type string	Choices: package ← patch pattern product srcpackage application	The type of package to be operated on.
update_cache boolean	Choices: no ← yes	Run the equivalent of `zypper refresh` before the operation. Disabled in check mode. aliases: refresh

Notes

Note

When used with a loop: each package will be processed individually, it is much more efficient to pass the list directly to the name option.

Examples

- name: Install nmap
  community.general.zypper:
    name: nmap
    state: present

- name: Install apache2 with recommended packages
  community.general.zypper:
    name: apache2
    state: present
    disable_recommends: no

- name: Apply a given patch
  community.general.zypper:
    name: openSUSE-2016-128
    state: present
    type: patch

- name: Remove the nmap package
  community.general.zypper:
    name: nmap
    state: absent

- name: Install the nginx rpm from a remote repo
  community.general.zypper:
    name: 'http://nginx.org/packages/sles/12/x86_64/RPMS/nginx-1.8.0-1.sles12.ngx.x86_64.rpm'
    state: present

- name: Install local rpm file
  community.general.zypper:
    name: /tmp/fancy-software.rpm
    state: present

- name: Update all packages
  community.general.zypper:
    name: '*'
    state: latest

- name: Apply all available patches
  community.general.zypper:
    name: '*'
    state: latest
    type: patch

- name: Perform a dist-upgrade with additional arguments
  community.general.zypper:
    name: '*'
    state: dist-upgrade
    allow_vendor_change: true
    extra_args: '--allow-arch-change'

- name: Perform a installaion of nmap with the install option replacefiles
  community.general.zypper:
    name: 'nmap'
    state: latest
    replacefiles: true

- name: Refresh repositories and update package openssl
  community.general.zypper:
    name: openssl
    state: present
    update_cache: yes

- name: "Install specific version (possible comparisons: <, >, <=, >=, =)"
  community.general.zypper:
    name: 'docker>=1.10'
    state: present

- name: Wait 20 seconds to acquire the lock before failing
  community.general.zypper:
    name: mosh
    state: present
  environment:
    ZYPP_LOCK_TIMEOUT: 20

Authors

Patrick Callahan (@dirtyharrycallahan)
Alexander Gubin (@alxgu)
Thomas O’Donnell (@andytom)
Robin Roth (@robinro)
Andrii Radyk (@AnderEnder)

© 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/zypper_module.html

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