community.general.opkg – Package manager for OpenWrt

Note

This plugin is part of the community.general collection (version 1.3.2).

To install it use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.general.

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

Synopsis
Requirements
Parameters
Examples

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	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	present ← absent installed removed	state of the package
update_cache boolean	no ← yes	update the package db first 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
© 2018–2019 Red Hat, Inc.
Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/2.10/collections/community/general/opkg_module.html