# Ansible on Centos5 again

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-on-centos5-again/11999>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Tags:** ansible-project, ubuntu\
**Created:** [October 19, 2012, 1:59pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-on-centos5-again/11999 "2012-10-19T13:59:07Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Michael\_DeHaan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@Michael\_DeHaan](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2012, 1:59pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-on-centos5-again/11999/1 "2012-10-19T13:59:07Z")

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Not sure what "it still does not work" refers to.

> So my first question is, which is the stable release now?

0.7.2

> Because somehow in [http://ansible.cc/docs/gettingstarted.html](http://ansible.cc/docs/gettingstarted.html) is a ppa  
> menioned for ubuntu [https://launchpad.net/~rquillo/+archive/ansible](https://launchpad.net/~rquillo/+archive/ansible)
> 
> That one mentiones 0.7.2. But in the git repository
> 
> [https://github.com/ansible/ansible/downloads](https://github.com/ansible/ansible/downloads)
> 
> There is only ansible-0.7.1.tar.gz mentioned. So which source code should I  
> take now, to build a rpm of the current stable release of ansible. Please  
> point me directly to the code I shall take. Thanks a lot...

Probably because 0.7.2 didn't really warrant an official release.

0.8 comes out tonight, for what it's worth.

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**Author:** ![hakim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/97f17d/32.png) [@hakim](https://forum.ansible.com/u/hakim)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2012, 8:03am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-on-centos5-again/11999/2 "2012-10-22T08:03:56Z")

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Hi,

So 0.8 is released now, I will start with that. Here is what I did:

Configure EPEL repo

wget ‘[http://ftp-stud.hs-esslingen.de/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm](http://ftp-stud.hs-esslingen.de/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm)’  
rpm -ivh epel-release-5-4.noarch.rp

Get the newest release from [[https://github.com/ansible/ansible/downloads](https://github.com/ansible/ansible/downloads) here], and unpack it.

yum install python26 python26-PyYAML python26-paramiko python26-jinja2 rpm-build asciidoc libxslt git  
cd ansible-  
echo \> VERSION

Version was at this time 0.8.

Change the python to python26:

```
# grep -ri python26 * | grep -v rpm-build
Makefile:SITELIB = $(shell python26 -c "from distutils.sysconfig import get_python_lib; print get_python_lib()")
Makefile:all: clean python26
Makefile: python26 setup.py build
Makefile: python26 setup.py install
Makefile: python26 setup.py sdist -t MANIFEST.in
packaging/rpm/ansible.spec:%{!?python_sitelib: %global python_sitelib %(python26 -c "from distutils.sysconfig import get_python_lib; print(get_python_lib())")}
packaging/rpm/ansible.spec:Requires: python26-paramiko
packaging/rpm/ansible.spec:Requires: python26-jinja2
packaging/rpm/ansible.spec:python26 setup.py build
packaging/rpm/ansible.spec:python26 setup.py install -O1 --root=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT
setup.py:#!/usr/bin/env python26
```

```
# make rpm
fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git
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
sed "s/%VERSION%/0.8/" docs/man/man1/ansible.1.asciidoc.in > docs/man/man1/ansible.1.asciidoc
a2x -D docs/man/man1/ -d manpage -f manpage docs/man/man1/ansible.1.asciidoc
I/O error : Attempt to load network entity http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/manpages/docbook.xsl
warning: failed to load external entity "http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/manpages/docbook.xsl"
compilation error: file /etc/asciidoc/docbook-xsl/manpage.xsl line 13 element import
xsl:import : unable to load http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/manpages/docbook.xsl
a2x: failed: xsltproc --stringparam callout.graphics 0 --stringparam navig.graphics 0 --stringparam admon.textlabel 1 --stringparam admon.graphics 0 --nonet "/etc/asciidoc/docbook-xsl/manpage.xsl" "/root/ansible-0.8/docs/man/man1/ansible.1.xml"
make: *** [docs/man/man1/ansible.1] Fehler 1
rm docs/man/man1/ansible.1.asciidoc
```

I am able to download with wget [http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/manpages/docbook.xsl](http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/manpages/docbook.xsl), but somehow the a2x fails here. No rpm for centos 5 so far ;o)

Thanks for your help