apt module is not installing anything if package source is standard apt repository

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Hi!

I’m having an issue with the apt module and my playbook with Ansible 2.5.3 (2.5.2 is behaving the same).

I’m running the following playbook snippet:

tasks:

  • name: Install packages required for VMs
    apt:
    name {{ item }} state=present
    with_items:
  • cifs-utils
  • etckeeper

The output for all packages is “OK” as if it would be already installed, but it is not.
A later step that mounts a cifs share fails because cifs-utils is in fact not installed (if I run apt-get install cifs-utils directly on the host it would install it, therefore it wasn’t there before).

Any hint what might be the problem here?

2

Just as a follow-up:

If i install a .deb package directly that works flawlessly. Only if the source is the regular apt list, then this happens

3

Syntax error, missing equal sign after name.

4

Oh man, i feel stupid.

That did the trick.

Thanks a lot!