I am having issues installing basic packages using ansible

Question

I have my Yaml script, established ssh with remote PC, but unable to install applications that require prerequisites or dependencies

see below.

 - name: Install Slack
     apt:
       name: 'https://downloads.slack-edge.com/linux_releases/slack-desktop-4.11.1-amd64.deb'
       state: present
     become: yes
- name: Install Chrome
     apt:
       name: 'https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb'
       state: present
     become: yes
- name: Download rpmfusion-free repository definition
     apt:
       name: 'https://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-32.noarch.rpm'
       state: present
     become: yes
- name: Download rpmfusion-nonfree repository definition
     apt:
       name: 'https://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-32.noarch.rpm'
       state: present
     become: yes

Answer 1

Hi@akhtar,

Every application has some dependencies. Then only the applications can run. Now Ansible is used to configure the systems. So you have some application names in the playbook. Ansible is trying to install them but the applications have some dependencies. Now you can install the dependencies manually or using the Ansible playbook. If possible share your error as well.