3.x – Installing corrupted packages using Ansible on Debian 11 Bullseye… here is a solution to the problem.
3.x – Installing corrupted packages using Ansible on Debian 11 Bullseye
I want to install the Debian package (not yet) using Ansible 2.7.7 in Debian tests
I tried to perform this simple task :
tasks:
- name: install basic packages
apt:
name: ['mc', 'htop', 'strace','sudo','screen','lshw', 'postfix', 'etckeeper']
state: present
But the installation fails with a strange message :
TASK [install basic packages] *********************************************************************************
fatal: [webserver.vitexsoftware.cz]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "msg": "Could not import python modules: apt, apt_pkg. Please install python-apt package."}
to retry, use: --limit @/home/vitex/Projects/VitexSoftware/Ansible/playbooks/orchestrate.retry
The Python package required for apt is installed as python3-apt
vitex@webserver:~/Projects/VitexSoftware/DockerTools$ aptitude search python | grep '\-apt'
i A python-apt-common - Python interface to libapt-pkg (locales)
p python-apt-dev - Python interface to libapt-pkg (development files)
p python-apt-doc - Python interface to libapt-pkg (API documentation)
i python3-apt - Python 3 interface to libapt-pkg
p python3-apt-dbg - Python 3 interface to libapt-pkg (debug extension)
v python3-apt-dbg:any -
v python3-apt:any -
p python3-aptly - Aptly REST API client and useful tooling - Python 3.x
v python3.9-apt -
v python3.9-apt-dbg -
v python3.9-apt-dbg:any -
v python3.9-apt:any -
There is a closed Unresolved issue on GitHub: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/73535 this won’t help me somehow.
How does it work like on Debian 10?
Solution
Specify python3 as the interpreter in the hosts file
[webservers]
webserver.vitexsoftware.cz ansible_host=10.11.56.210 ansible_python_interpreter=/bin/python3
Do its job :
TASK [install basic packages] **************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** ********************************
changed: [webserver.vitexsoftware.cz]