urpmi - Urpmi manager

Author:Philippe Makowski

Synopsis

New in version 1.3.4.

Manages packages with urpmi (such as for Mageia or Mandriva)

Options

parameter	required	default	choices	comments
force	no	True	yes no	Corresponds to the --force option for urpmi.
no-suggests	no	True	yes no	Corresponds to the --no-suggests option for urpmi.
pkg	yes			name of package to install, upgrade or remove.
state	no	present	absent present	Indicates the desired package state
update_cache	no		yes no	update the package database first urpmi.update -a.

Examples

# install package foo
- urpmi: pkg=foo state=present
# remove package foo
- urpmi: pkg=foo state=absent
# description: remove packages foo and bar
- urpmi: pkg=foo,bar state=absent
# description: update the package database (urpmi.update -a -q) and install bar (bar will be the updated if a newer version exists)
- urpmi: name=bar, state=present, update_cache=yes