I want to point out that there are potentially 2 or 3 different Pythons involved in an Ansible build and that's it's useful not to mix them up.ġ️⃣ The system/Ansible Python. Once you have a deb package you can install it with Ansible's apt module apt: deb=/tmp/b It can also take a Python module only available with pip install and turn it into a system package for you, which is very useful. There's also fpm, which can take lots of different sources and make deb, rpm and so on with them. The simplest way of doing this is a tool like checkinstall. If there is no ppa that has the version of Python you require, then you may need to build a. To get an extra version of Python installed, the easiest option is to use a ppa, such as so that someone else has done the work of turning Python into a package for you.Ī PPA can be added with Ansible's apt repository module using a directive like the one below, which will then allow you to install packages from it the normal ansible way: apt_repository: repo='ppa:fkrull/deadsnakes-python2.7'

Installing an extra copy of Python that someone else made This is because it's used by the system itself for things like package management, and so replacing it may cause other important things to break. The first thing to consider is that you probably don't want to replace or upgrade the system version of Python.

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