# how to install tagged release

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-install-tagged-release/16453>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [October 7, 2014, 1:17pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-install-tagged-release/16453 "2014-10-07T13:17:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![Torsten\_Reinhard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/46a35a/32.png) [@Torsten\_Reinhard](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Torsten_Reinhard)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2014, 1:17pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-install-tagged-release/16453/1 "2014-10-07T13:17:04Z")

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Hi all,

for weeks we´ve been successfully using Ansible 1.6.6 - now we got an update due to our current setup based just on “yum install ansible”, so we have version 1.7-1.el6.

After this update I ran into some problems, Ansible hangs when invoking an “install.sh” in our playbook - without any further details.  
Switching back to 1.6.6 solved the problem.

How can I install 1.6.6 ? At [http://docs.ansible.com/intro\_installation.html](http://docs.ansible.com/intro_installation.html) there are several ways to install the latest release - but no way to install a tagged release.  
Only downloading and unpacking the \*.tar.gz isnt enough.

cd /tmp  
wget [http://releases.ansible.com/ansible/ansible-1.6.6.tar.gz](http://releases.ansible.com/ansible/ansible-1.6.6.tar.gz)  
tar -xvf ansible-1.6.6.tar.gz  
cd ansible-1.6.6  
python setup.py install

Could someone provide the instructions to a “tagged release installation” please?

Thanx, Torsten

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**Author:** ![Michael\_DeHaan1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5e9695/32.png) [@Michael\_DeHaan1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan1)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2014, 3:13pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-install-tagged-release/16453/2 "2014-10-07T15:13:53Z")

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It would be a mistake to revert to a previous version of Ansible that does not contain all the security fixes in the 1.6 series.

It might be more interesting to figure out what’s going on with your command that appears to hang and power through it.

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**Author:** ![Torsten\_Reinhard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/46a35a/32.png) [@Torsten\_Reinhard](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Torsten_Reinhard)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2014, 4:41pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-install-tagged-release/16453/3 "2014-10-07T16:41:09Z")

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Of course, I will provide the details afterwards. But today I ran into the problem that my VM was launched but the yum install ansible pulled a new Version.  
So the 1st issue for me (and the Team) is to freeze the setup to a released Version of ansible.

This is just like we dont want to update our Jenkins,Maven or whatever environment automatically.

My workaround for now is to  
yum install ansible  
Yum erase ansible.

And than the update / unpack procedure. But thats kind of hack…

Any better way?

Thx. Torsten