# How to find Ansibles depenencies?

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-find-ansibles-depenencies/45315>\
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**Created:** [February 10, 2026, 10:29am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-find-ansibles-depenencies/45315 "2026-02-10T10:29:20Z")\
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> tl;dr: How to find (list) ansibles dependecies?

You can find the list of requirements for each plugin in their documentation, for the `apt` module it’s [ansible.builtin.apt module – Manages apt-packages — Ansible Community Documentation](https://docs.ansible.com/projects/ansible/latest/collections/ansible/builtin/apt_module.html#requirements)

> Now apparently `python3-apt` can neither be installed via `pip` , nor the system one can be used (of course it is installed globally using `apt install python3-apt` ).

Unfortunately the apt module depends on the apt Python bindings that are only available for the system Python which you have to use in order to run the `apt` module. The same case applies to e.g. the `dnf` module. Fortunately this is being worked on, see [Ansible supported Python version on \_target\_ - #17 by Thulium-Drake](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-supported-python-version-on-target/44863/17).

> As I wrote, this does not work, since my Ansible needs an old Python

As @nsavich already said, there’s no other way than to set `ansible_python_interpreter` to the system Python that has the `apt` bindings in order to use the module. I am curious what is the system Python version that your ansible-core version doesn’t support?

Another alternative is to `pip install` different ansible-core version that satisfy your environment.

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