How do i install an ansible galaxy role from a tar.gz file as non-root user ?

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Hi,

I have seen a number of sites that explain how to install a role from a tar.gz file using ansible-galaxy, and they all seem to say the same thing.
In my case I have downloaded the following role file from ansible galaxy :
dsglaser-cis_security-1.2.0.tar.gz

Then I tried to install

`
ansible-galaxy collection install dsglaser-cis_security-1.2.0.tar.gz

`

which gives me the warning :

[WARNING]: - collection was NOT installed successfully: Failed to get data from the API server (https://galaxy.ansible.com/api/): Failed to connect to galaxy.ansible.com at port 443: [Errno 104] Connection reset by peer

This is correct, because this machine is not, and never will be connected to the internet.

Another attempt :

ansible-galaxy install dsglaser-cis_security-1.2.0.tar.gz

results in another warning:
[WARNING]: - dsglaser-cis_security-1.2.0.tar.gz was NOT installed successfully: the specified roles path exists and is not a directory.

Also tried using the -p option to indicate where I want the role to be installed, with and without the directory present, but every attempt resulted in the last warning.

I’m not doing this as root…
Ansible version is 2.8.13

Just discovered that the command

ansible-galaxy install dsglaser-cis_security-1.2.0.tar.gz -p ./bla

does work, but only as root. And that’s not what I want…

What am I doing wrong ?

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It's very strange, maybe ./bla directory is root owned?

You should be able to run this command without being root.

Luca