# Install lxml for community.general.xml

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/install-lxml-for-community-general-xml/36221>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Tags:** ubuntu\
**Created:** [January 19, 2022, 5:45am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/install-lxml-for-community-general-xml/36221 "2022-01-19T05:45:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jason\_Wood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3bc359/32.png) [@Jason\_Wood](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Jason_Wood)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2022, 5:45am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/install-lxml-for-community-general-xml/36221/1 "2022-01-19T05:45:01Z")

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I am running Ansible on Ubuntu 20.04.

I’d like to use the community.general.xml module.

I get a “ModuleNotFoundError” relating to lxml when I try to run the playbook.

I tried sudo apt-get install python3-lxml

There were errors toward the end of the process:

…  
Setting up ansible (5.2.0-1ppa~focal) …  
Killed  
Traceback (most recent call last):  
File “/usr/bin/py3compile”, line 290, in   
main()  
File “/usr/bin/py3compile”, line 269, in main  
compile(files, versions,  
File “/usr/bin/py3compile”, line 187, in compile  
pipe.send(fn)  
File “/usr/bin/py3compile”, line 138, in py\_compile  
stdin.write(filename.encode(‘utf-8’) + b’\n’)  
BrokenPipeError: [Errno 32] Broken pipe  
dpkg: error processing package ansible (–configure):  
installed ansible package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1  
Setting up python3-soupsieve (1.9.5+dfsg-1) …  
Setting up python3-bs4 (4.8.2-1) …  
Setting up python3-lxml:arm64 (4.5.0-1ubuntu0.5) …  
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.31-0ubuntu9.2) …  
Errors were encountered while processing:  
ansible  
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

…and I still get the same error when running the playbook.

Note (in case this matters): when I run ansible --version, I get:

ansible [core 2.12.1]  
config file = /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg  
configured module search path = [‘/home/ubuntu/.ansible/plugins/modules’, ‘/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules’]  
ansible python module location = /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/ansible  
ansible collection location = /home/ubuntu/.ansible/collections:/usr/share/ansible/collections  
executable location = /usr/bin/ansible  
python version = 3.8.10 (default, Nov 26 2021, 20:14:08) [GCC 9.3.0]  
jinja version = 2.10.1  
libyaml = True

Jason