I try to install ansible in a WSL2 instance (Debian) and got the following issues: According to https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/installation_guide/intro_installation.html#id18 I did $ python3 -m pip install --user ansible but this gave the ▶ error: externally-managed-environment I install…

Installation of ansible in WSL2 fails

Norbert (Norbert Klamann) January 10, 2024, 12:06pm 3

I solved it with a direct download of ansible from pypi , the parameter --retries 50and several tries.

That seems to have been a problem with the network.

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