# Change in location of Ansible packages

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/change-in-location-of-ansible-packages/25050>\
**Category:** Ansible Developer\
**Tags:** rhel, ubuntu\
**Created:** [July 21, 2017, 5:56pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/change-in-location-of-ansible-packages/25050 "2017-07-21T17:56:27Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Jason\_McKerr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e495f1/32.png) [@Jason\_McKerr](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Jason_McKerr)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2017, 5:56pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/change-in-location-of-ansible-packages/25050/1 "2017-07-21T17:56:27Z")

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In order to align better with Red Hat processes, the Ansible team will be making some changes in how Ansible packages are distributed to the community.

For users of RHEL/CentOS/Scientific Linux version 7, the Ansible package will transition from the EPEL repository to the Extras channel. There will be no change for version 6 of RHEL/CentOS/Scientific Linux as Extras is not a part of version 6.

It is understood that a lot of users install Ansible from EPEL; as a result, multiple sources are now being provided to install Ansible:

- RHEL 7 users will get it from RHEL 7 Extras.

- RHEL 6 users will continue to get it from EPEL 6 repositories

- Non RHEL RPM-based users will be able to choose from multiple locations:

- CENTOS 7 Extras will pick it up per their normal distributions.

- Ansible will have RPMs/YUM-repo on [releases.ansible.com](http://releases.ansible.com). I’ll send a follow up message regarding that in the next day or two as our engineers finish that up.

For people that have workflow around EPEL, the EPEL maintainers have agreed to give us a couple of weeks overlap, so your workflow will still work while you work on changing over to one of the new distribution methods.

For NON-RPM based distributions, you should get or install Ansible through your usual means, such as the Ansible PPA for Ubuntu, or PyPI.

If you have any questions, please reach out here.

Jason McKerr

Director of Engineering, Ansible Core.

Ansible by Red Hat.

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**Author:** ![Mark\_Mielke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f07891/32.png) [@Mark\_Mielke](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Mark_Mielke)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2017, 1:46am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/change-in-location-of-ansible-packages/25050/2 "2017-07-22T01:46:46Z")

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Hi Jason:

Will the RHEL Extras packages be kept as up-to-date as EPEL? I had seen the ansible-2.3.0.0-4 in RHEL Extras, but ansible-2.3.1.0-1 on EPEL 7, and I chose to go with the EPEL version, because I want to be up-to-date.

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![Jason\_McKerr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e495f1/32.png) [@Jason\_McKerr](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Jason_McKerr)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2017, 1:09pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/change-in-location-of-ansible-packages/25050/3 "2017-07-24T13:09:13Z")

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Hi Mark,

RHEL-Extras typically does release on a longer cycle than Ansible. That is part of the reason why we’ll have releases on [releases.ansible.com](http://releases.ansible.com). That will be the best place for you to get RPM-based Ansible on the fastest release cycle.

Jason