# help needed to install Ansible on MacOS BigSur **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Project\ **Created:** [May 2, 2021, 3:58pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/help-needed-to-install-ansible-on-macos-bigsur/35094 "2021-05-02T15:58:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Zeynal\_Hajili](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Zeynal\_Hajili](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Zeynal_Hajili)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2021, 3:58pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/help-needed-to-install-ansible-on-macos-bigsur/35094/1 "2021-05-02T15:58:56Z")
Hello team, I am very new to Ansible and i am trying to install Ansible on my MacOS BigSur. I followed official guide and tried to install it with following logs. MacBook-Pro: **~** $ **python3 -m pip install --user ansible** Collecting ansible Using cached ansible-3.3.0-py3-none-any.whl Requirement already satisfied: ansible-base\<2.11,\>=2.10.8 in ./Library/Python/3.8/lib/python/site-packages (from ansible) (2.10.8) Requirement already satisfied: cryptography in ./Library/Python/3.8/lib/python/site-packages (from ansible-base\<2.11,\>=2.10.8-\>ansible) (3.4.7) Requirement already satisfied: PyYAML in /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/site-packages (from ansible-base\<2.11,\>=2.10.8-\>ansible) (5.3.1) Requirement already satisfied: jinja2 in /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/site-packages (from ansible-base\<2.11,\>=2.10.8-\>ansible) (2.11.2) Requirement already satisfied: packaging in ./Library/Python/3.8/lib/python/site-packages (from ansible-base\<2.11,\>=2.10.8-\>ansible) (20.9) Requirement already satisfied: cffi\>=1.12 in ./Library/Python/3.8/lib/python/site-packages (from cryptography-\>ansible-base\<2.11,\>=2.10.8-\>ansible) (1.14.5) Requirement already satisfied: pycparser in ./Library/Python/3.8/lib/python/site-packages (from cffi\>=1.12-\>cryptography-\>ansible-base\<2.11,\>=2.10.8-\>ansible) (2.20) Requirement already satisfied: MarkupSafe\>=0.23 in /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/site-packages (from jinja2-\>ansible-base\<2.11,\>=2.10.8-\>ansible) (1.1.1) Requirement already satisfied: pyparsing\>=2.0.2 in ./Library/Python/3.8/lib/python/site-packages (from packaging-\>ansible-base\<2.11,\>=2.10.8-\>ansible) (2.4.7) Installing collected packages: ansible **Successfully installed ansible-3.3.0** it seems that ansible is already installed ,but i cannot even verify ansible version with **ansible --version** command. Could you please let me know if i am doing anything wrong? ---
**Author:** ![Kiran\_Kumar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f475e1/32.png) [@Kiran\_Kumar](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Kiran_Kumar)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2021, 5:29pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/help-needed-to-install-ansible-on-macos-bigsur/35094/2 "2021-05-02T17:29:04Z")
What is error you get ? ---
**Author:** ![Zeynal\_Hajili](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Zeynal\_Hajili](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Zeynal_Hajili)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2021, 5:31pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/help-needed-to-install-ansible-on-macos-bigsur/35094/3 "2021-05-02T17:31:53Z")
Hello Kiran, I am not able to apply any command related to ansible ,basic one is ansible --version ---
**Author:** ![f.floimair.commend](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3da27b/32.png) [@f.floimair.commend](https://forum.ansible.com/u/f.floimair.commend)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2021, 5:59pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/help-needed-to-install-ansible-on-macos-bigsur/35094/4 "2021-05-02T17:59:12Z")
It’s probably not in your path. ---
**Author:** ![Zeynal\_Hajili](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Zeynal\_Hajili](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Zeynal_Hajili)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2021, 6:00pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/help-needed-to-install-ansible-on-macos-bigsur/35094/5 "2021-05-02T18:00:45Z")
How can i verify please? ---
**Author:** ![Zeynal\_Hajili](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Zeynal\_Hajili](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Zeynal_Hajili)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2021, 8:40pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/help-needed-to-install-ansible-on-macos-bigsur/35094/6 "2021-05-03T20:40:08Z")
hey guys , Even when i try to uninstall it i see following **~** $ pip uninstall ansible **Found existing installation: ansible 3.3.0** Uninstalling ansible-3.3.0: Would remove: ---
**Author:** ![Zeynal\_Hajili](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Zeynal\_Hajili](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Zeynal_Hajili)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2021, 8:22am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/help-needed-to-install-ansible-on-macos-bigsur/35094/7 "2021-05-04T08:22:00Z")
team , I have solved it by creating symlink to correct path ln -s ~/Library/Python/3.8/bin/ansible /usr/local/bin/ansible