# noobie question: how use use ansbile binaries from a branch

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/noobie-question-how-use-use-ansbile-binaries-from-a-branch/17640>\
**Category:** Ansible Developer\
**Created:** [February 27, 2015, 8:10pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/noobie-question-how-use-use-ansbile-binaries-from-a-branch/17640 "2015-02-27T20:10:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![Alexander\_Gray\_II](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Alexander\_Gray\_II](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Alexander_Gray_II)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2015, 8:10pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/noobie-question-how-use-use-ansbile-binaries-from-a-branch/17640/1 "2015-02-27T20:10:47Z")

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I have a really dumb question.

I installed ansible via pip. I have 1.8.4 installed and it works great.

I want to try something out on the devel branch, so I “git clone [https://github.com/ansible/ansible.git](https://github.com/ansible/ansible.git)”

And I try to run ansible-playbook from the bin directory:

./ansible-playbook /tmp/foo.yml -i /tmp/foo/inv -e foo=bar

But I get errors, like:

ansible-playbook: error: no such option: -e

Am I doing something silly? Do I have to set some env vars so that I can use the binaries in the bin directory?

Alex

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**Author:** ![Alexander\_Gray\_II](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Alexander\_Gray\_II](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Alexander_Gray_II)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2015, 8:18pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/noobie-question-how-use-use-ansbile-binaries-from-a-branch/17640/2 "2015-02-27T20:18:46Z")

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I forgot to mention that I indeed ran: “git submodule update --init --recursive”

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**Author:** ![Chris\_Church1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ac8455/32.png) [@Chris\_Church1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Chris_Church1)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2015, 8:21pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/noobie-question-how-use-use-ansbile-binaries-from-a-branch/17640/3 "2015-02-27T20:21:16Z")

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source ./hacking/env-setup

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**Author:** ![Alexander\_Gray\_II](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Alexander\_Gray\_II](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Alexander_Gray_II)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2015, 9:26pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/noobie-question-how-use-use-ansbile-binaries-from-a-branch/17640/4 "2015-02-27T21:26:11Z")

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You sir, are correct! Thanks for replying so quickly!!!