# Awx install failes

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/awx-install-failes/31970>\
**Category:** AWX Project\
**Tags:** awx\
**Created:** [January 14, 2020, 5:46pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/awx-install-failes/31970 "2020-01-14T17:46:58Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Revanth\_Mallikarjun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@Revanth\_Mallikarjun](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Revanth_Mallikarjun)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2020, 5:46pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/awx-install-failes/31970/1 "2020-01-14T17:46:58Z")

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Hi ,

I’m getting below error , having ansible version2.4.2.0

ERROR! no action detected in task. This often indicates a misspelled module name, or incorrect module path.

The error appears to have been in ‘/a01/AWX/awx/installer/roles/local\_docker/tasks/compose.yml’: line 26, column 3, but may  
be elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.

The offending line appears to be:

- name: Start the containers  
^ here

The error appears to have been in ‘/a01/AWX/awx/installer/roles/local\_docker/tasks/compose.yml’: line 26, column 3, but may  
be elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.

The offending line appears to be:

- name: Start the containers  
^ here

exception type: \<class ‘ansible.errors.AnsibleParserError’\>  
exception: no action detected in task. This often indicates a misspelled module name, or incorrect module path.

The error appears to have been in ‘/a01/AWX/awx/installer/roles/local\_docker/tasks/compose.yml’: line 26, column 3, but may  
be elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.

The offending line appears to be:

- name: Start the containers  
^ here

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**Author:** ![rpetrell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b4bc9f/32.png) [@rpetrell](https://forum.ansible.com/u/rpetrell)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2020, 5:49pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/awx-install-failes/31970/2 "2020-01-14T17:49:22Z")

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Revanth,

AWX requires a more modern version of Ansible to install:

[https://github.com/ansible/awx/blame/devel/INSTALL.md#L64](https://github.com/ansible/awx/blame/devel/INSTALL.md#L64)