Installation of Zypper on Ubuntu

On Ubuntu 20.04, there are 3 options for installing zypper. 

• Using apt-get to install 
• Using apt to install   
• Using aptitude to install 

Let’s go through all the installation methods.

Method 1: Using apt-get to install  

Step 1: Using the following command, update the apt database using apt-get.

sudo apt-get update

Step 2: After upgrading the apt database, we can use apt-get to install zypper by performing the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install zypper

Method 2: Using apt to install  

Step 1: The apt database will be updated with the command below.

sudo apt update

Step 2: After upgrading the apt database, we can use apt to install zypper by performing the following command:

sudo apt -y install zypper

Method 3: Using aptitude to install

Step 1: If you want to use this method, you may need to install aptitude first because it is not normally installed by default on Ubuntu. Use the following command to update the apt database with aptitude.

sudo aptitude update

Step 2: After upgrading the apt database, we can use aptitude to install zypper by performing the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install zypper

Zypper is a software management command-line program. It may add package repositories, search for packages, install, uninstall, or update packages, install patches, and device drivers, and check dependencies, among other things. Zypper can be used interactively or in a non-interactive fashion by the user, scripts, or front-ends. In this article, we will be going through the installation and usage of Zypper on the Ubuntu system.