The new version of Ansible has to be installed with PIP. This means the old version of Ansible has to be removed by the Ubuntu package manager, apt.
Used the package manager to remove the old version of Ansible:
sudo apt -y remove ansible
The output ends with:
Successfully uninstalled ansible-2.9.2
Used PIP to install the new version of Ansible:
sudo pip3 install ansible
The output was:
The directory '/home/douglas/.cache/pip/http' or its parent directory is not owned by the current user and the cache has been disabled. Please check the permissions and owner of that directory. If executing pip with sudo, you may want sudo's -H flag.
The directory '/home/douglas/.cache/pip' or its parent directory is not owned by the current user and caching wheels has been disabled. check the permissions and owner of that directory. If executing pip with sudo, you may want sudo's -H flag.
Collecting ansible
Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/4a/0b/44b586965bd51135d3915a02d1327fb392843630435cd41d6c89898c5f24/ansible-2.10.0.tar.gz (25.5MB)
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Collecting ansible-base<2.11,>=2.10.1 (from ansible)
Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/0f/84/88f33c9d4a5eda7f4183500996c2504b76f5312d57f00e5981da0b73b4af/ansible-base-2.10.1.tar.gz (6.0MB)
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Requirement already satisfied: PyYAML in /home/douglas/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages (from ansible-base<2.11,>=2.10.1->ansible)
Requirement already satisfied: cryptography in /home/douglas/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages (from ansible-base<2.11,>=2.10.1->ansible)
Requirement already satisfied: jinja2 in /home/douglas/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages (from ansible-base<2.11,>=2.10.1->ansible)
Collecting packaging (from ansible-base<2.11,>=2.10.1->ansible)
Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/46/19/c5ab91b1b05cfe63cccd5cfc971db9214c6dd6ced54e33c30d5af1d2bc43/packaging-20.4-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Requirement already satisfied: six>=1.4.1 in /home/douglas/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages (from cryptography->ansible-base<2.11,>=2.10.1->ansible)
Requirement already satisfied: cffi!=1.11.3,>=1.8 in /home/douglas/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages (from cryptography->ansible-base<2.11,>=2.10.1->ansible)
Requirement already satisfied: MarkupSafe>=0.23 in /home/douglas/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages (from jinja2->ansible-base<2.11,>=2.10.1->ansible)
Collecting pyparsing>=2.0.2 (from packaging->ansible-base<2.11,>=2.10.1->ansible)
Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/8a/bb/488841f56197b13700afd5658fc279a2025a39e22449b7cf29864669b15d/pyparsing-2.4.7-py2.py3-none-any.whl (67kB)
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Requirement already satisfied: pycparser in /home/douglas/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages (from cffi!=1.11.3,>=1.8->cryptography->ansible-base<2.11,>=2.10.1->ansible)
Installing collected packages: pyparsing, packaging, ansible-base, ansible
Running setup.py install for ansible-base ... done
Running setup.py install for ansible ... done
Successfully installed ansible-2.10.0 ansible-base-2.10.1 packaging-20.4 pyparsing-2.4.7
Verify the new version of Ansible:
ansible --version
The output was:
ansible 2.10.1
config file = /etc/ansible/ansible-ocm12c/ansible.cfg
configured module search path = ['/home/douglas/.ansible/plugins/modules', '/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules']
ansible python module location = /usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/ansible
executable location = /usr/local/bin/ansible
python version = 3.6.9 (default, Jul 17 2020, 12:50:27) [GCC 8.4.0]