# get\_url, "unsupported parameter for module: checksum"

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/get-url-unsupported-parameter-for-module-checksum/23526>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Tags:** ubuntu\
**Created:** [January 23, 2017, 2:29am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/get-url-unsupported-parameter-for-module-checksum/23526 "2017-01-23T02:29:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![Adam\_Williams1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Adam\_Williams1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Adam_Williams1)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2017, 2:29am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/get-url-unsupported-parameter-for-module-checksum/23526/1 "2017-01-23T02:29:00Z")

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Hello,

I’ve got a Vagrant Ubuntu 14.04 machine provisioned with:

`  
sudo apt-get install -y software-properties-common  
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ansible/ansible  
sudo apt-get update  
sudo apt-get install -y ansible

`

This gives me:

`  
vagrant@ubuntu:~$ ansible --version  
ansible 2.2.1.0  
config file = /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg  
configured module search path = Default w/o overrides

`

I have these tasks:

`  
tasks:

- name: install hashlib for checksums  
easy\_install:  
name: hashlib

- name: install php  
get\_url:  
url: [http://us1.php.net/distributions/php-7.1.1.tar.bz2](http://us1.php.net/distributions/php-7.1.1.tar.bz2)  
dest: /var/tmp/  
checksum: “sha256:d791d39d7b54ec42441a05a5f06d68a495647d843210e3ae4f2c6adb99c675bc”

`

However, I receive the following error message:

`  
TASK: [install hashlib for checksums] \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*  
ok: [default]

TASK: [install php] \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*  
failed: [default] =\> {“failed”: true}  
msg: unsupported parameter for module: checksum

FATAL: all hosts have already failed – aborting

`

The documentation for get\_url indicates that checksum has been supported since 2.0.

What might I be missing?