16.118. cdist-type__package_zypper(7)¶

16.118.1. NAME¶

cdist-type__package_zypper - Manage packages with zypper

16.118.2. DESCRIPTION¶

Zypper is usually used on the SuSE distribution to manage packages.

16.118.3. REQUIRED PARAMETERS¶

None

16.118.4. OPTIONAL PARAMETERS¶

name: If supplied, use the name and not the object id as the package name.
state: Either "present" or "absent", defaults to "present"
version: The version of the package to install. Default is to install the version chosen by the local package manager. For a list of available versions, have a look at the output of "zypper se -s packagename"
ptype: Either "package", "patch", "pattern", "product" or "srcpackage", defaults to "package". For a description see man zypper.

16.118.5. EXAMPLES¶

# Ensure zsh is installed
__package_zypper zsh --state present

# If you don't want to follow pythonX packages, but always use python
__package_zypper python --state present --name python2

# Ensure binutils is installed and the version is forced to be 2.23.1-0.19.2
__package_zypper binutils --state present --version 2.23.1-0.19.2

# Remove package
__package_zypper cfengine --state absent

# install all packages which belongs to pattern x11
__package_zypper x11 --ptype pattern --state present

16.118.6. SEE ALSO¶

cdist-type__package(7)

16.118.7. AUTHORS¶

Daniel Heule <hda--@--sfs.biz>

16.118.8. COPYING¶

Copyright (C) 2012 Nico Schottelius. Copyright (C) 2013 Daniel Heule. You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.