On 2018-02-23, Liam Proven
But it was the best I could think of how to explain what KIWI is. I could post you instead to "man kiwi" :-P
lproven@viper:~> man kiwi No manual entry for kiwi
It was a good and helpful answer, though. I did not expect to find a Wikipedia entry for a SUSE corporate tool, though. And as when I Googled for info on IBM using it, I expected -- and got -- the fruit instead. ;-)
(Coming back to the whole "openSUSE" versus "SUSE" thing -- KIWI is an openSUSE project. While the main maintainer might be a SUSE employee -- there is nothing "corporate" about its development or wide-spread usage. After all, the entire openSUSE distribution depends on it to create the installation media.)
lproven@viper:~> cnf kiwi
The program 'kiwi' can be found in the following packages: * kiwi [ path: /usr/sbin/kiwi, repository: zypp (repo-oss) ] * python2-kiwi [ path: /usr/bin/kiwi, repository: zypp (repo-oss) ] * python3-kiwi [ path: /usr/bin/kiwi, repository: zypp (repo-oss) ]
Try installing with: sudo zypper install
Still doesn't really tell me anything useful...
If you install it (which is what the output of "cnf" is telling you), then you will get the man pages. Another source of information about KIWI is the online documentation: https://suse.github.io/kiwi/ -- Aleksa Sarai Senior Software Engineer (Containers) SUSE Linux GmbH https://www.cyphar.com/