community.general.slackpkg – Package manager for Slackware >= 12.2

Note

This plugin is part of the community.general collection (version 2.0.1).

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

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

Synopsis
Requirements
Parameters
Examples

Synopsis

Manage binary packages for Slackware using ‘slackpkg’ which is available in versions after 12.2.

Requirements

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

Slackware >= 12.2

Parameters

Parameter	Choices/Defaults	Comments
name list / elements=string / required		name of package to install/remove aliases: pkg
state string	present ← absent latest installed removed	state of the package, you can use "installed" as an alias for `present` and removed as one for `absent`.
update_cache boolean	no ← yes	update the package database first aliases: update-cache

Examples

- name: Install package foo
  community.general.slackpkg:
    name: foo
    state: present

- name: Remove packages foo and bar
  community.general.slackpkg:
    name: foo,bar
    state: absent

- name: Make sure that it is the most updated package
  community.general.slackpkg:
    name: foo
    state: latest

Authors

Kim Nørgaard (@KimNorgaard)

© 2012–2018 Michael DeHaan
© 2018–2021 Red Hat, Inc.
Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/2.11/collections/community/general/slackpkg_module.html