Enable module in Ansible

I am working on a role to install Apache Guacamole. One of the dependencies that has to be installed is libssh2-devel, but that’s not available on RHEL 8. Google is telling me that if I install the virt-devel OS module via ‘dnf module enable virt-devel’,that will allow libssh2-devel to be installed.

However, in my playbook in the role, no matter what I try, I cannot get this module to be enabled. If I do this:

  • name: Enable virt-devel module
    ansible.builtin.dnf:
    name: ‘@virt-devel
    state: present

I get: “virt-devel Problems in request: broken groups or modules: virt-devel”.

If I change the code to use the command module:

  • name: Enable virt-devel module
    ansible.builtin.command: /bin/dnf enable module virt-devel

nothing happens in my playbook. It doesn’t fail or succeed on that play, it simply just hangs there. So I went to the target host and ran that command manually, then enabled debug in my playbook. When I run it again, it gets past that play with:

Updating Subscription Management repositories.
Last metadata expiration check: 0:56:53 ago on Thu 11 Jan 2024 08:41:00 AM EST.
Dependencies resolved.
Nothing to do.
Complete!

Any ideas on why this could be happening?

Thanks,
Harry

I don’t know, but this sounds more like a RHEL issue than an ansible issue…

I used the command module and that seems to have let it get installed.

Thanks,
Harry