How to install Wordpress on Tumbleweed?

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Trying to install Wordpress on Tumbleweed to develop a website off line before uploading to a host etc. Tried following instructions on following wiki page:
Wordpress
After some pause for thought I tried following these instructions but failed at the first command: sudo transactional-update pkg in nginx

This gave the following response in the terminal: sudo transactional-update : command not found
I’m guessing this is because of the bit at the start of the wiki which says:
These instructions will be for MicroOS. Adjust for Tumbleweed or Leap as required.
Can any one advise how to change these instructions so they work in Tumbelweed?
Is it for example as simple as stripping out the transactional bit?
Or is there an easier way to do it via zypper perhaps?
I see over on Nginx page it says to use:
sudo zypper install nginx
So would that be the way to go for this and all the other instructions in the lengthy wiki.
Any help and advice would be gratefully received.
Otherwise I guess I might have to go with the crappy Wordpress Install offered on my hosting service and try and develop it there.

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Tumbleweed uses zypper…

sudo zypper in nginx

So the same zypper command as for installation of any other package in Tumbleweed.

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@jjis Consider deploying in a container (distrobox) as your user, at least if something breaks it’s only that and not the system…

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Thanks for the advice on containers. I noticed that there are some instructions at the end of the WIki I linked to in my post about Wordpress Development on the Desktop (although this may be about developing plug ins) which refers to Docker which I believe is a container thing, so would that cover it? Or is that specific to the plug ins development? TBH I’m a bit of a newbie when it comes to Wordpress, Docker & network stuff, so maybe I should leave this to my hosting service as I don’t want to break my system.

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@jjis well perhaps a virtual machine then?

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Did you notice the first few words in that SDB?

These instructions will be for MicroOS. Adjust for Tumbleweed or Leap as required.

I run WordPress on this Leap system – simply installed the package by means of the graphical YaST Software Manager and then, set it up after reading the “README” files located in directory included with the installation package –

/usr/share/doc/packages/wordpress/

Mostly everything else is located in –

/srv/www/wordpress/

including some additional “README” files.

And, there’s an additional configuration file in –

/etc/wordpress/

Apart from that, the place to learn the rest of the tasks to be executed when installing WordPress is here: <WordPress Documentation>

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Hi, thanks for taking the time to reply. I have had a look at the Readme file now. It didn’t make a lot of sense just brought up a text document & didn’t open in browser as suggested but offered to save the file. Not sure if I should have done that. Unfortunately it all seems as clear as mud to me (not your fault it’s me). Maybe I’ll have to try the crappy version provided by the Host and then maybe see if I can connect to that in some way using the instructions in the Read me file, which is maybe what it is trying to do? :man_shrugging:t3:

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