# how to install tagged release

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-install-tagged-release/16455>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [October 7, 2014, 1:37pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-install-tagged-release/16455 "2014-10-07T13:37:42Z")\
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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, 1:37pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-install-tagged-release/16455/1 "2014-10-07T13:37:42Z")

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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:** ![Igor\_Homyakov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Igor\_Homyakov](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Igor_Homyakov)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2014, 3:50pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-install-tagged-release/16455/2 "2014-10-07T15:50:55Z")

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Hi,

with `pip` you can install any version of python package you want

in you case it will be

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;pip install ansible=='1.6.6'

I would recommend you to use requirements.txt to pin certain version  
of python packages  
[https://pip.readthedocs.org/en/1.1/requirements.html](https://pip.readthedocs.org/en/1.1/requirements.html)

-- Best, Igor