# Ansible installation from source (git clone) gives "ImportError: No module named ansible.runner" **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Project\ **Created:** [December 4, 2015, 12:42pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-installation-from-source-git-clone-gives-importerror-no-module-named-ansible-runner/19937 "2015-12-04T12:42:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![P11](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9adbd/32.png) [@P11](https://forum.ansible.com/u/P11)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2015, 12:42pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-installation-from-source-git-clone-gives-importerror-no-module-named-ansible-runner/19937/1 "2015-12-04T12:42:10Z")
Hi all, I am trying to install ansible using “git clone” and it fails (have done that before a few times and it worked): ` # git clone [GitHub - ansible/ansible: Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy and maintain. Automate everything from code deployment to network configuration to cloud management, in a language that approaches plain English, using SSH, with no agents to install on remote systems. https://docs.ansible.com.](https://github.com/ansible/ansible.git) --recursive Initialized empty Git repository in /opt/apps/ansible/.git/ remote: Counting objects: 102057, done. remote: Total 102057 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 102057 Receiving objects: 100% (102057/102057), 36.29 MiB | 7.88 MiB/s, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (60887/60887), done. Submodule ‘lib/ansible/modules/core’ ([GitHub - ansible/ansible-modules-core: Ansible modules - these modules ship with ansible](https://github.com/ansible/ansible-modules-core)) registered for path ‘lib/ansible/modules/core’ Submodule ‘lib/ansible/modules/extras’ ([GitHub - ansible/ansible-modules-extras: Ansible extra modules - these modules ship with ansible](https://github.com/ansible/ansible-modules-extras)) registered for path ‘lib/ansible/modules/extras’ Initialized empty Git repository in /opt/apps/ansible/lib/ansible/modules/core/.git/ remote: Counting objects: 30223, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (39/39), done. remote: Total 30223 (delta 15), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 30184 Receiving objects: 100% (30223/30223), 8.20 MiB | 3.45 MiB/s, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (20054/20054), done. Submodule path ‘lib/ansible/modules/core’: checked out ‘cd9a7667aa39bbc1ccd606ebebaf3c62f228d601’ Initialized empty Git repository in /opt/apps/ansible/lib/ansible/modules/extras/.git/ remote: Counting objects: 28690, done. remote: Total 28690 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 28690 Receiving objects: 100% (28690/28690), 7.78 MiB | 3.45 MiB/s, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (18960/18960), done. Submodule path ‘lib/ansible/modules/extras’: checked out ‘3c4f954f0fece5dcb3241d6d5391273334206241’ # ls -la total 32 drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Dec 4 10:54 . drwxr-xr-x. 7 root root 4096 Dec 2 15:28 .. drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 4096 Dec 4 10:54 ansible drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 4096 Dec 2 15:50 ansible.old drwx------ 2 root root 16384 Jun 30 2014 lost+found # cd ansible # git tag -l 0.0.1 0.0.2 0.01 0.3 0.3.1 0.4 0.4.1 0.5 0.6 0.7 0.7.1 0.7.2 0.8 v0.9 v1.0 v1.1 v1.2 v1.2.1 v1.2.2 v1.2.3 v1.3.0 v1.3.1 v1.3.2 v1.3.3 v1.3.4 v1.4.0 v1.4.1 v1.4.2 v1.4.3 v1.4.4 v1.4.5 v1.5.0 v1.5.1 v1.5.2 v1.5.3 v1.5.4 v1.5.5 v1.6.0 v1.6.1 v1.6.10 v1.6.2 v1.6.3 v1.6.4 v1.6.5 v1.6.6 v1.6.7 v1.6.8 v1.6.9 v1.7.0 v1.7.1 v1.7.2 v1.8.0 v1.8.1 v1.8.2 v1.8.3 v1.8.4 v1.9.0-0.1.rc1 v1.9.0-0.2.rc2 v1.9.0-1 v1.9.0-2 v1.9.0.1-1 v1.9.1-0.1.rc1 v1.9.1-0.2.rc2 v1.9.1-0.3.rc3 v1.9.1-0.4.rc4 v1.9.1-1 v1.9.2-0.1.rc1 v1.9.2-0.2.rc2 v1.9.2-1 v1.9.3-0.1.rc1 v1.9.3-0.2.rc2 v1.9.3-0.3.rc3 v1.9.3-1 v1.9.4-0.1.rc1 v1.9.4-0.2.rc2 v1.9.4-0.3.rc3 v1.9.4-1 v2.0.0-0.1.alpha1 v2.0.0-0.2.alpha2 v2.0.0-0.3.beta1 v2.0.0-0.4.beta2 v2.0.0-0.5.beta3 v2.0.0-0.6.rc1 # git checkout v1.9.4-1 M lib/ansible/modules/core M lib/ansible/modules/extras Note: checking out ‘v1.9.4-1’. You are in ‘detached HEAD’ state. You can look around, make experimental changes and commit them, and you can discard any commits you make in this state without impacting any branches by performing another checkout. If you want to create a new branch to retain commits you create, you may do so (now or later) by using -b with the checkout command again. Example: git checkout -b new\_branch\_name HEAD is now at 5af1cda… Version bump for release 1.9.4-1 # source ./hacking/env-setup running egg\_info creating lib/ansible.egg-info writing requirements to lib/ansible.egg-info/requires.txt writing lib/ansible.egg-info/PKG-INFO writing top-level names to lib/ansible.egg-info/top\_level.txt writing dependency\_links to lib/ansible.egg-info/dependency\_links.txt writing manifest file ‘lib/ansible.egg-info/SOURCES.txt’ reading manifest file ‘lib/ansible.egg-info/SOURCES.txt’ reading manifest template ‘MANIFEST.in’ no previously-included directories found matching ‘v2’ no previously-included directories found matching ‘docsite’ no previously-included directories found matching ‘ticket\_stubs’ no previously-included directories found matching ‘packaging’ no previously-included directories found matching ‘test’ no previously-included directories found matching ‘hacking’ writing manifest file ‘lib/ansible.egg-info/SOURCES.txt’ Setting up Ansible to run out of checkout… PATH=/opt/apps/ansible/bin:/usr/lib64/qt-3.3/bin:/opt/apps/ansible/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/opt/IBM/nmon:/root/bin PYTHONPATH=/opt/apps/ansible/lib: MANPATH=/opt/apps/ansible/docs/man: Remember, you may wish to specify your host file with -i Done! # git pull --rebase You are not currently on a branch, so I cannot use any ‘branch..merge’ in your configuration file. Please specify which remote branch you want to use on the command line and try again (e.g. ‘git pull ’). See git-pull(1) for details. # git submodule update --init --recursive Submodule path ‘lib/ansible/modules/core’: checked out ‘206a1247d911c8e9161c121d1d81d232985aa43a’ Submodule path ‘lib/ansible/modules/extras’: checked out ‘882ec41e12b6664dbed7ab5cb5352b1b5abd3857’ # ansible --version Traceback (most recent call last): File “/opt/apps/ansible/bin/ansible”, line 36, in from ansible.runner import Runner ImportError: No module named ansible.runner ` Can anyone tell what is wrong ? Can I fix it ? ---
**Author:** ![j.r.hawkesworth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a3d4f5/32.png) [@j.r.hawkesworth](https://forum.ansible.com/u/j.r.hawkesworth)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2015, 1:01pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-installation-from-source-git-clone-gives-importerror-no-module-named-ansible-runner/19937/2 "2015-12-04T13:01:04Z")
Did you run source hacking/env-setup so that the paths can be set? I think I’ve had similar when I’ve got a package install of ansible and pulled the source code on the same machine. Hope this helps, Jon ---
**Author:** ![P11](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9adbd/32.png) [@P11](https://forum.ansible.com/u/P11)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2015, 1:06pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-installation-from-source-git-clone-gives-importerror-no-module-named-ansible-runner/19937/3 "2015-12-04T13:06:23Z")
Yes, I did run “source ./hacking/env-setup”. And this ansible is the installation on this server. There is no other (nor pip, tar.gz, etc). I have had similar error before but it turned out I had install ansible using pip. Now it is not that case. ---
**Author:** ![P11](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9adbd/32.png) [@P11](https://forum.ansible.com/u/P11)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2015, 1:10pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-installation-from-source-git-clone-gives-importerror-no-module-named-ansible-runner/19937/4 "2015-12-04T13:10:37Z")
I’ve forgotten to say that this is on Red Hat 6.5. ---
**Author:** ![Brian\_Coca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6de8d8/32.png) [@Brian\_Coca](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Brian_Coca)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2015, 2:06pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-installation-from-source-git-clone-gives-importerror-no-module-named-ansible-runner/19937/5 "2015-12-04T14:06:11Z")
try running ‘make clean’ as ‘runner’ does not exist in 2.0, it seems you are getting 1.9 files in the mix, might be old .pyc that wont be removed by switching branches. ---
**Author:** ![P11](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9adbd/32.png) [@P11](https://forum.ansible.com/u/P11)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2015, 2:14pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-installation-from-source-git-clone-gives-importerror-no-module-named-ansible-runner/19937/6 "2015-12-04T14:14:06Z")
` # make clean Cleaning up distutils stuff rm -rf build rm -rf dist Cleaning up byte compiled python stuff find . -type f -regex “._.py[co]$" -delete Cleaning up editor backup files find . -type f ( -name "_~” -or -name “#_" ) -delete find . -type f ( -name "_.swp” ) -delete Cleaning up manpage stuff find ./docs/man -type f -name “_.xml" -delete find ./docs/man -type f -name "_.asciidoc” -delete find ./docs/man/man3 -type f -name "_.3" -delete Cleaning up output from test runs rm -rf test/test\_data Cleaning up RPM building stuff rm -rf MANIFEST rpm-build Cleaning up Debian building stuff rm -rf debian rm -rf deb-build rm -rf docs/json rm -rf docs/js Cleaning up authors file rm -f AUTHORS.TXT find . -type f -name '_.pyc’ -delete # ansible --version Traceback (most recent call last): File “/opt/apps/ansible/bin/ansible”, line 36, in from ansible.runner import Runner ImportError: No module named ansible.runner ` ---
**Author:** ![P11](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9adbd/32.png) [@P11](https://forum.ansible.com/u/P11)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2015, 2:19pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-installation-from-source-git-clone-gives-importerror-no-module-named-ansible-runner/19937/7 "2015-12-04T14:19:31Z")
I also downloaded ansible-1.9.4-1.tar.gz and still have the same problem: ` # ansible --version Traceback (most recent call last): File “/opt/apps/ansible/bin/ansible”, line 36, in from ansible.runner import Runner ImportError: No module named ansible.runner ` ---
**Author:** ![Brian\_Coca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6de8d8/32.png) [@Brian\_Coca](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Brian_Coca)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2015, 2:24pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-installation-from-source-git-clone-gives-importerror-no-module-named-ansible-runner/19937/8 "2015-12-04T14:24:45Z")
Are you using the release tarball or the github ones? ---
**Author:** ![P11](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9adbd/32.png) [@P11](https://forum.ansible.com/u/P11)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2015, 2:26pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-installation-from-source-git-clone-gives-importerror-no-module-named-ansible-runner/19937/9 "2015-12-04T14:26:32Z")
This one: [https://github.com/ansible/ansible/archive/v1.9.4-1.tar.gz](https://github.com/ansible/ansible/archive/v1.9.4-1.tar.gz) ---
**Author:** ![Brian\_Coca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6de8d8/32.png) [@Brian\_Coca](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Brian_Coca)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2015, 2:29pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-installation-from-source-git-clone-gives-importerror-no-module-named-ansible-runner/19937/10 "2015-12-04T14:29:49Z")
Those don’t work, they are autogenerated, go to [releases.ansible.com](http://releases.ansible.com) ---
**Author:** ![P11](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9adbd/32.png) [@P11](https://forum.ansible.com/u/P11)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2015, 2:30pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-installation-from-source-git-clone-gives-importerror-no-module-named-ansible-runner/19937/11 "2015-12-04T14:30:01Z")
And I have just tried this one with no change (still problem): [https://releases.ansible.com/ansible/](https://releases.ansible.com/ansible/) ---
**Author:** ![P11](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9adbd/32.png) [@P11](https://forum.ansible.com/u/P11)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2015, 2:31pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-installation-from-source-git-clone-gives-importerror-no-module-named-ansible-runner/19937/12 "2015-12-04T14:31:04Z")
Just for the record: ` # echo $PYTHONPATH /opt/apps/ansible/lib: # echo $PATH /opt/apps/ansible/bin:/usr/lib64/qt-3.3/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/opt/IBM/nmon:/root/bin ` ---
**Author:** ![P11](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9adbd/32.png) [@P11](https://forum.ansible.com/u/P11)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2015, 3:09pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-installation-from-source-git-clone-gives-importerror-no-module-named-ansible-runner/19937/13 "2015-12-04T15:09:04Z")
I did this way as well. And no change - still the same error … ---
**Author:** ![P11](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9adbd/32.png) [@P11](https://forum.ansible.com/u/P11)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2015, 4:05pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-installation-from-source-git-clone-gives-importerror-no-module-named-ansible-runner/19937/14 "2015-12-04T16:05:17Z")
Well, of course if you forget about “make install” (me) it won’t work … If you remember about it - it works. But using “make install” installs files into /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ Is there any way I can keep all ansible related files in i.e. /opt/apps/ansible and not mess with native packages ? ---
**Author:** ![Brian\_Coca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6de8d8/32.png) [@Brian\_Coca](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Brian_Coca)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2015, 2:45am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-installation-from-source-git-clone-gives-importerror-no-module-named-ansible-runner/19937/15 "2015-12-05T02:45:33Z")
i just tested this with release tarball, the issue of running w/o an install is that you don't have a hacking/env-setup in it. so i did this after downloading from releases.ansible.com/ansible/: tar xcvfz ~/Downloads/ansible-1.9.4.tar.gz -C ~/tmp/ cd ~/tmp/ansible-1.9.4 mkdir hacking cd hacking wget [https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ansible/ansible/devel/hacking/env-setup](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ansible/ansible/devel/hacking/env-setup) cd .. . hacking/env-setup ansible --version ansible 1.9.4   configured module search path = None Also tried with a play and it works fine. i just find git clone method easier. ---
**Author:** ![P11](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9adbd/32.png) [@P11](https://forum.ansible.com/u/P11)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2015, 7:54am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-installation-from-source-git-clone-gives-importerror-no-module-named-ansible-runner/19937/16 "2015-12-07T07:54:45Z")
Hi Brian, I also find git clone method easier except … it doesn’t work … I mean which step is missing from my list of steps (I am just following the steps from official Ansible web page) ? ---
**Author:** ![P11](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9adbd/32.png) [@P11](https://forum.ansible.com/u/P11)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2015, 11:46am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-installation-from-source-git-clone-gives-importerror-no-module-named-ansible-runner/19937/17 "2015-12-11T11:46:48Z")
Ok. Once again repeating steps from the official webpage: ` # git clone [GitHub - ansible/ansible: Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy and maintain. Automate everything from code deployment to network configuration to cloud management, in a language that approaches plain English, using SSH, with no agents to install on remote systems. https://docs.ansible.com.](https://github.com/ansible/ansible.git) --recursive Initialized empty Git repository in /opt/apps/ansible/.git/ remote: Counting objects: 102829, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (5/5), done. remote: Total 102829 (delta 1), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 102824 Receiving objects: 100% (102829/102829), 36.27 MiB | 7.31 MiB/s, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (61433/61433), done. Submodule ‘lib/ansible/modules/core’ ([GitHub - ansible/ansible-modules-core: Ansible modules - these modules ship with ansible](https://github.com/ansible/ansible-modules-core)) registered for path ‘lib/ansible/modules/core’ Submodule ‘lib/ansible/modules/extras’ ([GitHub - ansible/ansible-modules-extras: Ansible extra modules - these modules ship with ansible](https://github.com/ansible/ansible-modules-extras)) registered for path ‘lib/ansible/modules/extras’ Initialized empty Git repository in /opt/apps/ansible/lib/ansible/modules/core/.git/ remote: Counting objects: 30323, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (12/12), done. remote: Total 30323 (delta 2), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 30311 Receiving objects: 100% (30323/30323), 8.18 MiB | 4.51 MiB/s, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (20131/20131), done. Submodule path ‘lib/ansible/modules/core’: checked out ‘0d23b3df526875c8fc6edf94268f3aa850ec05f1’ Initialized empty Git repository in /opt/apps/ansible/lib/ansible/modules/extras/.git/ remote: Counting objects: 28803, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (21/21), done. remote: Total 28803 (delta 10), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 28782 Receiving objects: 100% (28803/28803), 7.79 MiB | 4.06 MiB/s, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (19075/19075), done. Submodule path ‘lib/ansible/modules/extras’: checked out ‘51813e003331c3341b07c5cda33346cada537a3b’ # cd ansible # source ./hacking/env-setup running egg\_info creating lib/ansible.egg-info writing requirements to lib/ansible.egg-info/requires.txt writing lib/ansible.egg-info/PKG-INFO writing top-level names to lib/ansible.egg-info/top\_level.txt writing dependency\_links to lib/ansible.egg-info/dependency\_links.txt writing manifest file ‘lib/ansible.egg-info/SOURCES.txt’ reading manifest file ‘lib/ansible.egg-info/SOURCES.txt’ reading manifest template ‘MANIFEST.in’ no previously-included directories found matching ‘v2’ no previously-included directories found matching ‘docsite’ no previously-included directories found matching ‘ticket\_stubs’ no previously-included directories found matching ‘packaging’ no previously-included directories found matching ‘test’ no previously-included directories found matching ‘hacking’ writing manifest file ‘lib/ansible.egg-info/SOURCES.txt’ Setting up Ansible to run out of checkout… PATH=/opt/apps/ansible/bin:/usr/lib64/qt-3.3/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/opt/IBM/nmon:/root/bin PYTHONPATH=/opt/apps/ansible/lib/: MANPATH=/opt/apps/ansible/docs/man: Remember, you may wish to specify your host file with -i Done! # ansible --version Traceback (most recent call last): File “/opt/apps/ansible/bin/ansible”, line 39, in from ansible.errors import AnsibleError, AnsibleOptionsError, AnsibleParserError ImportError: No module named ansible.errors # echo $PATH /opt/apps/ansible/bin:/usr/lib64/qt-3.3/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/opt/IBM/nmon:/root/bin # echo $PYTHONPATH /opt/apps/ansible/lib/: ` So what is wrong with it ? ---
**Author:** ![Brian\_Coca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6de8d8/32.png) [@Brian\_Coca](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Brian_Coca)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2015, 2:26pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-installation-from-source-git-clone-gives-importerror-no-module-named-ansible-runner/19937/18 "2015-12-11T14:26:12Z")
There is something really weird going on, the exact same steps work fine for me, your pythonpath is correct and should be able to find the files. Can you confirm that /opt/apps/ansible/lib/ansible/errors/\_\_init\_\_.py exists? ---
**Author:** ![P11](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9adbd/32.png) [@P11](https://forum.ansible.com/u/P11)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2015, 2:41pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-installation-from-source-git-clone-gives-importerror-no-module-named-ansible-runner/19937/19 "2015-12-11T14:41:18Z")
“Freshly” cloned again today: ` # ls -la /opt/apps/ansible/lib/ansible/errors/ **init**.py -rw-r–r-- 1 root root 7738 Dec 11 11:42 /opt/apps/ansible/lib/ansible/errors/ **init**.py ` I also don’t understand what is going on. When I clone it it has many releases in it. Don’t I need to checkout one of them at the very begin ? Can I turn on some debugging/verbose options ? ---
**Author:** ![Brian\_Coca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6de8d8/32.png) [@Brian\_Coca](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Brian_Coca)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2015, 2:47pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-installation-from-source-git-clone-gives-importerror-no-module-named-ansible-runner/19937/20 "2015-12-11T14:47:47Z")
Clone will automatically give you 'devel' which is the 'most current'. There are verbose options, but they won't workas you are failing on the basic import before anything gets run. what does this return? /usr/bin/env python --version [Next page](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-installation-from-source-git-clone-gives-importerror-no-module-named-ansible-runner/19937.md?page=2)