AlmaLinux and “python3-dnf”

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Hello All,

I’m facing an issue with Ansible and Almalinux target host.

My Ansible is hosted on Ubuntu, I can deploy on Debian and Suze without any pb.

I added a new OS on my configuration, Almalinux 8

When I tried to launch my script the following error appears :

FAILED! => {“changed”: false, “msg”: “Could not import the dnf python module using /usr/bin/python3.11 (3.11.13 (main, Jul 1 2025, 10:23:30) [GCC 8.5.0 20210514 (Red Hat 8.5.0-26)]). Please install python3-dnf package or ensure you have specified the correct ansible_python_interpreter. (attempted [‘/usr/libexec/platform-python’, ‘/usr/bin/python3’, ‘/usr/bin/python’])”, “results”: }

Maybe I didn’t check properly but I don’t found any solution, I tried to set ansible_python_interpreter: /usr/bin/python3 same way

I think there are a trick to manage installation/configuration on ansible target ?

Thank you for your support,

Eric.

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In order to run the dnf module you need to use the system Python for which the Python dnf bindings (python3-dnf) are available. I believe that for AlmaLinux 8 the system Python version is 3.6 which also means that you need to run the version of ansible-core that supports running Python 3.6 on target machines, the last such version is ansible-core 2.16, see Releases and maintenance — Ansible Community Documentation.

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