community.general.opkg – Package manager for OpenWrt

• 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	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 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)