How to Install and Uninstall shepherd Package on openSuSE Tumbleweed

Last updated: March 15,2025

1. Install "shepherd" package

Please follow the instructions below to install shepherd on openSuSE Tumbleweed


    
        
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                sudo zypper refresh
            
                    
    
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                sudo zypper install
            
                        
                shepherd
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "shepherd" package

This is a short guide on how to uninstall shepherd on openSuSE Tumbleweed:


    
        
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                sudo zypper remove
            
                        
                shepherd
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the shepherd package on openSuSE Tumbleweed

Information for package shepherd:
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Repository : openSUSE-Tumbleweed-Oss
Name : shepherd
Version : 0.10.2-1.2
Arch : x86_64
Vendor : openSUSE
Installed Size : 2.6 MiB
Installed : No
Status : not installed
Source package : shepherd-0.10.2-1.2.src
Upstream URL : https://www.gnu.org/software/shepherd/
Summary : Init and service manager
Description :
The GNU Daemon Shepherd or GNU Shepherd, formerly known as GNU dmd, is
a service manager that looks after the herd of system services. It
provides a replacement for the service-managing capabilities of
SysV-init (or any other init). It is intended
for use on GNU/Hurd, but it is supposed to work on every POSIX-like
system where Guile is available. In particular, it is used as PID 1 by
GNU Guix.