# Ansible failing on Amazon Linux AMI 2015.03 **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Project\ **Created:** [August 10, 2015, 4:31pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-failing-on-amazon-linux-ami-2015-03/18983 "2015-08-10T16:31:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![cosbug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/13edae/32.png) [@cosbug](https://forum.ansible.com/u/cosbug)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2015, 4:31pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-failing-on-amazon-linux-ami-2015-03/18983/1 "2015-08-10T16:31:20Z")
Hi All, Just launched an instance with Amazon Linux 2015.03 image, added epel-release repository and run “yum install ansible”. All went fine so far. Now when I try to run “ansible” or “ansible-playbook” from command line I get this error: ` Error: Traceback (most recent call last): File “./ansible”, line 26, in import ansible.runner ImportError: No module named ansible.runner ` I found that yum installs ansible libraries under /usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/ while the default python version in system (reported through “python --version”) is Python 2.7.9 so it seems to be expected under /usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/ … but it’s not there. `$ alternatives --display python python - status is auto. link currently points to /usr/bin/python2.7 /usr/bin/python2.7 - priority 27000 slave asadmin: /usr/bin/asadmin-2.7 slave bundle_image: /usr/bin/bundle_image-2.7 slave cfadmin: /usr/bin/cfadmin-2.7 slave cq: /usr/bin/cq-2.7 slave cwutil: /usr/bin/cwutil-2.7 slave dynamodb_dump: /usr/bin/dynamodb_dump-2.7 slave dynamodb_load: /usr/bin/dynamodb_load-2.7 slave easy_install: /usr/bin/easy_install-2.7 slave elbadmin: /usr/bin/elbadmin-2.7 slave fetch_file: /usr/bin/fetch_file-2.7 slave glacier: /usr/bin/glacier-2.7 slave instance_events: /usr/bin/instance_events-2.7 slave jp: /usr/bin/jp.py-2.7 slave jp.py: /usr/bin/jp.py-2.7 slave kill_instance: /usr/bin/kill_instance-2.7 slave launch_instance: /usr/bin/launch_instance-2.7 slave list_instances: /usr/bin/list_instances-2.7 slave lss3: /usr/bin/lss3-2.7 slave mturk: /usr/bin/mturk-2.7 slave pip: /usr/bin/pip-2.7 slave pyami_sendmail: /usr/bin/pyami_sendmail-2.7 slave pybabel: /usr/bin/pybabel-2.7 slave pydoc: /usr/bin/pydoc2.7 slave pystache: /usr/bin/pystache-2.7 slave pystache-test: /usr/bin/pystache-test-2.7 slave python-config: /usr/bin/python2.7-config slave route53: /usr/bin/route53-2.7 slave rst2html: /usr/bin/rst2html-2.7 slave rst2latex: /usr/bin/rst2latex-2.7 slave rst2man: /usr/bin/rst2man-2.7 slave rst2odt: /usr/bin/rst2odt-2.7 slave rst2odt_prepstyles: /usr/bin/rst2odt_prepstyles-2.7 slave rst2pseudoxml: /usr/bin/rst2pseudoxml-2.7 slave rst2s5: /usr/bin/rst2s5-2.7 slave rst2xetex: /usr/bin/rst2xetex-2.7 slave rst2xml: /usr/bin/rst2xml-2.7 slave rstpep2html: /usr/bin/rstpep2html-2.7 slave s3put: /usr/bin/s3put-2.7 slave sdbadmin: /usr/bin/sdbadmin-2.7 slave taskadmin: /usr/bin/taskadmin-2.7 slave urlgrabber: /usr/bin/urlgrabber-2.7 slave virtualenv: /usr/bin/virtualenv-2.7 slave python.1.gz: /usr/share/man/man1/python2.7.1.gz /usr/bin/python2.6 - priority 2600 slave asadmin: (null) slave bundle_image: (null) slave cfadmin: (null) slave cq: (null) slave cwutil: (null) slave dynamodb_dump: (null) slave dynamodb_load: (null) slave easy_install: /usr/bin/easy_install-2.6 slave elbadmin: (null) slave fetch_file: (null) slave glacier: (null) slave instance_events: (null) slave jp: (null) slave jp.py: (null) slave kill_instance: (null) slave launch_instance: (null) slave list_instances: (null) slave lss3: (null) slave mturk: (null) slave pip: (null) slave pyami_sendmail: (null) slave pybabel: /usr/bin/pybabel-2.6 slave pydoc: /usr/bin/pydoc2.6 slave pystache: (null) slave pystache-test: (null) slave python-config: (null) slave route53: (null) slave rst2html: (null) slave rst2latex: (null) slave rst2man: (null) slave rst2odt: (null) slave rst2odt_prepstyles: (null) slave rst2pseudoxml: (null) slave rst2s5: (null) slave rst2xetex: (null) slave rst2xml: (null) slave rstpep2html: (null) slave s3put: (null) slave sdbadmin: (null) slave taskadmin: (null) slave urlgrabber: (null) slave virtualenv: (null) slave python.1.gz: /usr/share/man/man1/python2.6.1.gz Current`best’ version is /usr/bin/python2.7. ` Is this expected behaviour? Why it installs under old version of python? Thanks in advance, Constantin ---
**Author:** ![Mark\_Phillips1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Mark\_Phillips1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Mark_Phillips1)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2015, 4:56pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-failing-on-amazon-linux-ami-2015-03/18983/2 "2015-08-10T16:56:03Z")
Amazon Linux already has EPEL configured, so you should just be able to do ‘yum install ansible’. It looks like you’ve put the EPEL repo in place for RHEL6, when Amazon Linux is closer to 7 - hence the Python 2.7 dependency. ---
**Author:** ![cosbug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/13edae/32.png) [@cosbug](https://forum.ansible.com/u/cosbug)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2015, 8:31am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-failing-on-amazon-linux-ami-2015-03/18983/3 "2015-08-11T08:31:04Z")
Thanks Mark. In fact it doesn’t come with “epel-release” package installed by default (amzn-ami-hvm-2015.03.0.x86\_64-gp2 (ami-a10897d6)): ` $ yum repolist all Loaded plugins: priorities, update-motd, upgrade-helper amzn-main/latest | 2.1 kB 00:00 amzn-main/latest/group | 35 kB 00:00 amzn-main/latest/primary\_db | 3.3 MB 00:00 amzn-updates/latest | 2.3 kB 00:00 amzn-updates/latest/group | 35 kB 00:00 amzn-updates/latest/updateinfo | 249 kB 00:00 amzn-updates/latest/primary\_db | 879 kB 00:00 repo id repo name status amzn-main/latest amzn-main-Base enabled: 5,302 amzn-main-debuginfo/latest amzn-main-debuginfo disabled amzn-nosrc/latest amzn-nosrc-Base disabled amzn-preview/latest amzn-preview-Base disabled amzn-preview-debuginfo/latest amzn-preview-debuginfo disabled amzn-updates/latest amzn-updates-Base enabled: 1,298 amzn-updates-debuginfo/latest amzn-updates-debuginfo disabled repolist: 6,600 ` Yes, I run “yum install epel-release” and then “yum install ansible --enablerepo=epel” and I get this: ` # yum install ansible --enablerepo=epel Loaded plugins: priorities, update-motd, upgrade-helper 980 packages excluded due to repository priority protections Resolving Dependencies → Running transaction check —\> Package ansible.noarch 0:1.9.2-1.el6 will be installed → Processing Dependency: python-simplejson for package: ansible-1.9.2-1.el6.noarch → Processing Dependency: python-setuptools for package: ansible-1.9.2-1.el6.noarch → Processing Dependency: python-paramiko for package: ansible-1.9.2-1.el6.noarch → Processing Dependency: python-keyczar for package: ansible-1.9.2-1.el6.noarch → Processing Dependency: python-jinja2 for package: ansible-1.9.2-1.el6.noarch → Processing Dependency: python-httplib2 for package: ansible-1.9.2-1.el6.noarch → Processing Dependency: python-crypto2.6 for package: ansible-1.9.2-1.el6.noarch → Processing Dependency: PyYAML for package: ansible-1.9.2-1.el6.noarch → Running transaction check —\> Package python-crypto2.6.x86\_64 0:2.6.1-2.el6 will be installed —\> Package python-keyczar.noarch 0:0.71c-1.el6 will be installed → Processing Dependency: python-pyasn1 for package: python-keyczar-0.71c-1.el6.noarch → Processing Dependency: python-crypto for package: python-keyczar-0.71c-1.el6.noarch —\> Package python26-PyYAML.x86\_64 0:3.10-3.10.amzn1 will be installed —\> Package python26-httplib2.noarch 0:0.7.7-1.5.amzn1 will be installed —\> Package python26-jinja2.noarch 0:2.7.2-2.15.amzn1 will be installed → Processing Dependency: python26-markupsafe for package: python26-jinja2-2.7.2-2.15.amzn1.noarch → Processing Dependency: python26-babel for package: python26-jinja2-2.7.2-2.15.amzn1.noarch —\> Package python26-paramiko.noarch 0:1.15.1-1.5.amzn1 will be installed → Processing Dependency: python26-ecdsa for package: python26-paramiko-1.15.1-1.5.amzn1.noarch —\> Package python26-setuptools.noarch 0:12.2-1.30.amzn1 will be installed → Processing Dependency: python26-backports-ssl\_match\_hostname for package: python26-setuptools-12.2-1.30.amzn1.noarch —\> Package python26-simplejson.x86\_64 0:3.6.5-1.12.amzn1 will be installed → Running transaction check —\> Package python26-babel.noarch 0:0.9.4-5.1.8.amzn1 will be installed —\> Package python26-backports-ssl\_match\_hostname.noarch 0:3.4.0.2-1.12.amzn1 will be installed → Processing Dependency: python26-backports for package: python26-backports-ssl\_match\_hostname-3.4.0.2-1.12.amzn1.noarch —\> Package python26-crypto.x86\_64 0:2.6.1-1.10.amzn1 will be installed —\> Package python26-ecdsa.noarch 0:0.11-3.3.amzn1 will be installed → Processing Dependency: python26-six for package: python26-ecdsa-0.11-3.3.amzn1.noarch —\> Package python26-markupsafe.x86\_64 0:0.11-4.6.amzn1 will be installed —\> Package python26-pyasn1.noarch 0:0.1.7-2.7.amzn1 will be installed → Running transaction check —\> Package python26-backports.x86\_64 0:1.0-3.14.amzn1 will be installed —\> Package python26-six.noarch 0:1.8.0-1.23.amzn1 will be installed → Finished Dependency Resolution Dependencies Resolved ---
**Author:** ![Mark\_Phillips1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Mark\_Phillips1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Mark_Phillips1)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2015, 9:49am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-failing-on-amazon-linux-ami-2015-03/18983/4 "2015-08-11T09:49:27Z")
Because you don’t need it Constantin. Amazon Linux already has EPEL plumbed in, it’s just not enabled. See… [ec2-user@ip-172-31-33-248 ~]$ **yum --enablerepo=epel info ansible** Loaded plugins: priorities, update-motd, upgrade-helper epel/x86\_64/metalink | 23 kB 00:00 epel/x86\_64 | 4.4 kB 00:00 epel/x86\_64/group\_gz | 149 kB 00:00 epel/x86\_64/updateinfo | 1.0 MB 00:00 epel/x86\_64/primary\_db | 6.7 MB 00:00 epel/x86\_64/pkgtags | 1.6 MB 00:00 980 packages excluded due to repository priority protections Available Packages Name : ansible Arch : noarch Version : 1.9.2 Release : 1.el6 Size : 1.7 M Repo : epel/x86\_64 Summary : SSH-based configuration management, deployment, and task execution system URL : [http://ansible.com](http://ansible.com) Licence : GPLv3 That was a freshly spun up instance with nothing else done to it. HTH –M ---
**Author:** ![cosbug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/13edae/32.png) [@cosbug](https://forum.ansible.com/u/cosbug)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2015, 10:23am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-failing-on-amazon-linux-ami-2015-03/18983/5 "2015-08-11T10:23:13Z")
You are right Mark. It’s there. Have you tried to run “ansible” form command line? I still get the same error. ---
**Author:** ![Mark\_Phillips1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Mark\_Phillips1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Mark_Phillips1)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2015, 5:33pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-failing-on-amazon-linux-ami-2015-03/18983/6 "2015-08-11T17:33:00Z")
Oh yes. I wonder if that’s something that’s broken lately? Set python2.6 to be the default alternative and it works OK… [ec2-user@ip-172-31-34-97 ~]$ sudo alternatives --set python /usr/bin/python2.6 [ec2-user@ip-172-31-34-97 ~]$ ansible --version ansible 1.9.2 ---
**Author:** ![cosbug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/13edae/32.png) [@cosbug](https://forum.ansible.com/u/cosbug)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2015, 8:59am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-failing-on-amazon-linux-ami-2015-03/18983/7 "2015-09-08T08:59:05Z")
Thanks Mark, All worked fine.