# Install awx-cli, then what? **URL:** \ **Category:** AWX Project\ **Tags:** awx\ **Created:** [January 25, 2021, 7:23pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/install-awx-cli-then-what/34507 "2021-01-25T19:23:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Kevin\_Knox](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/kevin_knox/32/3926_2.png) [@Kevin\_Knox](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Kevin_Knox)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2021, 7:23pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/install-awx-cli-then-what/34507/1 "2021-01-25T19:23:11Z")
I’m obviously without a clue here: bash-4.4# pip3 install --log ~/install2.log awxkit Requirement already satisfied: awxkit in /home/awx/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages Requirement already satisfied: PyYAML in /usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages (from awxkit) Requirement already satisfied: requests in /home/awx/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages (from awxkit) Requirement already satisfied: idna\<3,\>=2.5 in /usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages (from requests-\>awxkit) Requirement already satisfied: chardet\<5,\>=3.0.2 in /home/awx/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages (from requests-\>awxkit) Requirement already satisfied: certifi\>=2017.4.17 in /home/awx/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages (from requests-\>awxkit) Requirement already satisfied: urllib3\<1.27,\>=1.21.1 in /home/awx/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages (from requests-\>awxkit) bash-4.4# awx bash: awx: command not found ---
**Author:** ![rpetrell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b4bc9f/32.png) [@rpetrell](https://forum.ansible.com/u/rpetrell)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2021, 8:28pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/install-awx-cli-then-what/34507/2 "2021-01-25T20:28:00Z")
Hey Kevin, Can you share some details of your environment? I’ve given this a shot and it works okay for me: ~ head /etc/os-release -n3 NAME=Fedora VERSION=“32 (Workstation Edition)” ID=fedora ~ python3 --version Python 3.8.5 [yossarian] (fedora:●●) ~ python3 -m venv foo [yossarian] (fedora:●●) ~ source foo/bin/activate ~ pip install awxkit 2\>&1 \> /dev/null ~ awx -h usage: awx [–help] [–version] [–conf.host [https://example.awx.org](https://example.awx.org)] [–conf.token TEXT] [–conf.username TEXT] [–conf.password TEXT] [-k] [-f {json,yaml,jq,human}] [–filter TEXT] [–conf.color BOOLEAN] [-v] resource … positional arguments: resource login authenticate and retrieve an OAuth2 token config print current configuration values import import resources into Tower export export resources from Tower … ---
**Author:** ![Kevin\_Knox](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/kevin_knox/32/3926_2.png) [@Kevin\_Knox](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Kevin_Knox)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2021, 10:24pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/install-awx-cli-then-what/34507/3 "2021-01-25T22:24:25Z")
Thanks for the question! bash-4.4# head /etc/os-release -n3 NAME=“CentOS Linux” VERSION=“8 (Core)” ID=“centos” bash-4.4# python3 --version Python 3.6.8 bash-4.4# awx -h bash: awx: command not found The application may be somewhere in my file system, but I don’t know where to start looking for it. Kevin ---
**Author:** ![kdelee](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/kdelee/32/193_2.png) [@kdelee](https://forum.ansible.com/u/kdelee)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2021, 10:44pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/install-awx-cli-then-what/34507/4 "2021-01-25T22:44:16Z")
Try looking in ~/.local/bin I’m on fedora 33, which is not too unlike centos8 and thats where my system pip3 installs it. Maybe your $PATH is not correctly configured to pick up binaries in ~/.local/bin ---
**Author:** ![Kevin\_Knox](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/kevin_knox/32/3926_2.png) [@Kevin\_Knox](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Kevin_Knox)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2021, 1:41pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/install-awx-cli-then-what/34507/5 "2021-01-26T13:41:48Z")
Bingo! Thank you. Yes, it was in ~/.local/bin, and yes my path was not configured to find it. Great call! Kevin ---
**Author:** ![Kevin\_Knox](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/kevin_knox/32/3926_2.png) [@Kevin\_Knox](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Kevin_Knox)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2021, 8:20pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/install-awx-cli-then-what/34507/6 "2021-01-26T20:20:47Z")
For those following along for fun, after getting awx to work, this builds a project-sourced inventory. So much easier than doing it 150 times in the GUI! Thank you to the whole team of people who make this kind of stuff possible! inventory\_name=shared\_environment\_a new\_inventory=$(awx inventory create --name “$inventory\_name” --description ‘Autoimport by awx-cli from OEM’ --organization 3) # I will show the find, though the code works easily from $new\_inventory’s json return value found\_inventory=$(awx inventory list --name “$inventory\_name”) found\_inventory\_id=$(echo $found\_inventory | python3 -c “import sys, json; print(json.load(sys.stdin)[‘results’][0][‘id’])”) awx inventory\_sources create --name oem --description ‘Autosourced by awx-cli from OEM’ –source scm –source\_path “ansible/inventory/$inventory\_name.yml” –overwrite true –overwrite\_vars true –inventory “$found\_inventory\_id” –update\_on\_launch true –source\_project 30 –update\_on\_project\_update false ---
**Author:** ![rpetrell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b4bc9f/32.png) [@rpetrell](https://forum.ansible.com/u/rpetrell)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2021, 9:01pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/install-awx-cli-then-what/34507/7 "2021-01-26T21:01:22Z")
Thanks for the feedback Kevin 😃 Based on your example, you might be interested to know that the CLI generally lets you specify resources (like inventories) using just their name (assuming you keep them unique across e.g., Organizations). Try --inventory $inventory\_name and see if you can skip the ID lookup. The same is true for --organization “Some Organization Name” ---
**Author:** ![Kevin\_Knox](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/kevin_knox/32/3926_2.png) [@Kevin\_Knox](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Kevin_Knox)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2021, 9:44pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/install-awx-cli-then-what/34507/8 "2021-01-26T21:44:36Z")
> you can skip the ID lookup > Good to know! Thank you, again, Ryan. Kevin ---
**Author:** ![kdelee](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/kdelee/32/193_2.png) [@kdelee](https://forum.ansible.com/u/kdelee)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2021, 11:32pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/install-awx-cli-then-what/34507/9 "2021-01-26T23:32:31Z")
Great news! ---
**Author:** ![GoMatrix\_Hosting](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cab0a1/32.png) [@GoMatrix\_Hosting](https://forum.ansible.com/u/GoMatrix_Hosting)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2021, 9:33am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/install-awx-cli-then-what/34507/10 "2021-01-27T09:33:49Z")
I noticed this on Debian 10/11 too, where awxkit will install okay but you can’t find it in your path. Would be nice if it worked without having to specify the full path to awxkit.