apt module with list of packages

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Is there a way to have a file i.e system-requirements.txt with a package per line and have the apt module install that? Exactly how pip works…

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apt is not pip, but we have some very nice lookup plugins that are useful.

  • apt: name={{ item }} state=installed
    with_pipe: cat /path/to/file.txt

Note that the file.txt is assumed to be on the control machine.

Alternatively, you could register the result of running ls and loop through “result.stdout_lines”

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Thanks Michael. Yeah I didn’t mean pip == apt but that the apt module in ansible take a file like the pip module does.

Here is what I ended up with in case anyone else needs to do the same thing.

  • name: Ensure all base system packages are installed
    sudo: true
    apt: pkg={{ item }} state=installed
    with_lines: cat …/files/base-packages.txt