bash ansible command not found Failed to search for file Cannot update read-only repo

Question

Hi Guys,

I am trying to run ansible command in my Linux system, but it is showing me the below error.

[root@localhost ~]# ansible --version
bash: ansible: command not found...
Failed to search for file: Cannot update read-only repo

How can I solve this error?

Answer 1

Hi@akhtar,

By default, Ansible is not part of your Linux system. You need to install this module in your system. Ansible module is a part of the Python package. You can use the below command to install this module in your Linux system.

[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