Reinstall Ansible

This is just one method of reinstalling Ansible that I follow on my systems. You can also use distro package managers or Homebrew.

• Ansible is installed in virtualenv under ''~/.venv/ansible''.

Deactivate and remove virtauelenv

(ansible) $ deactivate
$ rm -rf ~/.venv/ansible

Re-create and activate virtualenv

$ virtualenv ~/.venv/ansible
$ source ~/.venv/ansible/bin/activate

Install basic packages

This is recommended practice for virtualenv under python 2.7.

$ pip install -U setuptools pip readline
$ pip install -U ipython

I just like to have iPython available and under 2.7 it requires the latest pip version before installing.

Install Ansible from git

$ git clone https://github.com/ansible/ansible
$ cd ansible
$ git checkout stable-2.4
$ pip install -r requirements.txt
$ python setup.py install

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Last update: September 19, 2021