2020-09-23 Upgrade to Ansible 2.10.1

Overview

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.

Remove Old Version of Ansible

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

Install New Version of Ansible

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)

100% |████████████████████████████████| 25.5MB 58kB/s

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)

100% |████████████████████████████████| 6.0MB 198kB/s

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)

100% |████████████████████████████████| 71kB 874kB/s

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 New Version

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]