Installing Ansible from source?

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Hi,

I’m trying to install Ansible from source, following this page:

However, I get to this step:

`




[root@centos65 ansible]#
source ./hacking/env-setup




Ansible now needs
setuptools in order to build. Install it using your package manager (usually
python-setuptools) or via pip (pip install setuptools).









Setting up Ansible to run
out of checkout…









PATH=/root/ansible/bin:/usr/lib64/qt-3.3/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/root/bin




PYTHONPATH=/root/ansible/lib:




MANPATH=/root/ansible/docs/man:









Remember, you may wish to
specify your host file with -i









Done!







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and I’m not quite sure what to do after that.

I’ve tried various different things, like just do yum install python-setuptools, etc. but I think I’m always not ending up with a good Ansible installation.

I’m currently like that, but when I try run win_ping I am getting:

`

[root@centos65 ansible]# ansible windows -i host -m win_ping
An exception occurred during task execution. To see the full traceback, use -vvv. The error was: NameError: name 'AnsibleError’ is not defined
ansible1.enclave2.whatever.com | FAILED! => {
“failed”: true,
“stdout”: “”
}
[root@centos65 ansible]#

`

and:

`

[root@centos65 ansible]# ansible windows -i host -m win_ping -vvvv
No config file found; using defaults
Loaded callback minimal of type stdout, v2.0
An exception occurred during task execution. The full traceback is:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/root/ansible/lib/ansible/executor/process/worker.py”, line 118, in run
executor_result = TaskExecutor(host, task, job_vars, new_play_context, self._new_stdin, self._loader, shared_loader_obj).run()
File “/root/ansible/lib/ansible/executor/task_executor.py”, line 117, in run
res = self._execute()
File “/root/ansible/lib/ansible/executor/task_executor.py”, line 265, in _execute
self._connection = self._get_connection(variables)
File “/root/ansible/lib/ansible/executor/task_executor.py”, line 440, in _get_connection
connection = connection_loader.get(conn_type, self._play_context, self._new_stdin)
File “/root/ansible/lib/ansible/plugins/init.py”, line 282, in get
self._module_cache[path] = imp.load_source(‘.’.join([self.package, name]), path)
File “/root/ansible/lib/ansible/plugins/connections/winrm.py”, line 34, in
raise AnsibleError(“winrm is not installed”)
NameError: name ‘AnsibleError’ is not defined

ansible1.enclave2.whatever.com | FAILED! => {
“failed”: true,
“stdout”: “”
}
[root@centos65 ansible]#

`

So can anyone tell me the correct way to install this from source?

Thanks,
Jim

2

Sorry forgot to link the page I’m following:

http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/intro_installation.html#getting-ansible

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http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/intro_installation.html#getting-ansible

http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/intro_installation.html#getting-ansible

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I’m not sure exactly how I did it, but I seemed to have gotten a good installation. At one point, it was weird and seemed to have blown away all of the paths to “ansible” (i.e., so I couldn’t run “ansible”). I did make and make install in the Ansible dir and then that seemed to have fixed things up??

Jim