How to install Ansible in Linux system

Question

Hi Guys,

I want to learn Ansible declarative language. I have a Linux system. Can anyone tell me how can I install Ansible in the Linux system?

Answer 1

Hi@akhtar,

To install Ansible in your Linux system, you can use the pip3 command as shown below.

[root@localhost ~]# pip3 install ansible
WARNING: Running pip install with root privileges is generally not a good idea. Try `pip3 install --user` instead.
Collecting ansible
  Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/e8/b2/c10b82573bb494d9e0764b5c75eb7be1e649082435280f2220976d1a3b33/ansible-2.9.11.tar.gz (14.2MB)
    100% |████████████████████████████████| 14.3MB 54kB/s
Collecting jinja2 (from ansible)
  Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/30/9e/f663a2aa66a09d838042ae1a2c5659828bb9b41ea3a6efa20a20fd92b121/Jinja2-2.11.2-py2.py3-none-any.whl (125kB)
    100% |████████████████████████████████| 133kB 121kB/s
Requirement already satisfied: PyYAML in /usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages (from ansible)
Requirement already satisfied: cryptography in /usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages (from ansible)
Collecting MarkupSafe>=0.23 (from jinja2->ansible)
  Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/b2/5f/23e0023be6bb885d00ffbefad2942bc51a620328ee910f64abe5a8d18dd1/MarkupSafe-1.1.1-cp36-cp36m-manylinux1_x86_64.whl
Requirement already satisfied: idna>=2.1 in /usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages (from cryptography->ansible)
Requirement already satisfied: asn1crypto>=0.21.0 in /usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages (from cryptography->ansible)
Requirement already satisfied: six>=1.4.1 in /usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages (from cryptography->ansible)
Requirement already satisfied: cffi!=1.11.3,>=1.7 in /usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages (from cryptography->ansible)
Requirement already satisfied: pycparser in /usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages (from cffi!=1.11.3,>=1.7->cryptography->ansible)
Installing collected packages: MarkupSafe, jinja2, ansible
  Running setup.py install for ansible ... done
Successfully installed MarkupSafe-1.1.1 ansible-2.9.11 jinja2-2.11.2

After successful installation, you can check using ansible --version command. It will show you the below output.

[root@localhost ~]# ansible --version
ansible 2.9.11
  config file = None
  configured module search path = ['/root/.ansible/plugins/modules', '/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules']
  ansible python module location = /usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ansible
  executable location = /usr/local/bin/ansible
  python version = 3.6.8 (default, Jan 11 2019, 02:17:16) [GCC 8.2.1 20180905 (Red Hat 8.2.1-3)]