# ansible verison 1.7 and pycrpto problems

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-verison-1-7-and-pycrpto-problems/15885>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [August 7, 2014, 9:46pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-verison-1-7-and-pycrpto-problems/15885 "2014-08-07T21:46:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![guanwen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e9c0ed/32.png) [@guanwen](https://forum.ansible.com/u/guanwen)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2014, 9:46pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-verison-1-7-and-pycrpto-problems/15885/1 "2014-08-07T21:46:21Z")

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I installed ansible 1.7, when I played my playbook, I got the following error messages:

[\*\*\*@xxxx openstack]$ ansible-playbook -i …/inventory --ask-vault-pass keystone.yml  
Vault password:  
ERROR: ansible-vault requires a newer version of pycrypto than the one installed on your platform. You may fix this with OS-specific commands such as:  
yum install python-devel; rpm -e --nodeps python-crypto; pip install pycrypto

I followed the above instruction, I got:

pip install pycrypto --upgrade  
Requirement already up-to-date: pycrypto in /usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/pycrypto-2.6.1-py2.6-linux-x86\_64.egg  
Cleaning up…

However, the problem is not still there.

regards

Henry

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**Author:** ![Michael\_DeHaan1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5e9695/32.png) [@Michael\_DeHaan1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan1)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2014, 2:39pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-verison-1-7-and-pycrpto-problems/15885/2 "2014-08-08T14:39:40Z")

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Initial questions - what OS are you running from and how did you install ansible?

Pycrypto can get confused when your libs get mixed between OS packages and pip.