pip install fails on Cento5.10

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Dear All,

I’m unable to install ansible via pip on Centos 5.10:

Using version 0.11 (newest of versions: 0.11, 0.10, 0.9, 0.8, 0.7, 0.6)
Downloading from URL https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/e/ecdsa/ecdsa-0.11.tar.gz#md5=8ef586fe4dbb156697d756900cb41d7c (from https://pypi.python.org/simple/ecdsa/)
Running setup.py egg_info for package ecdsa
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “”, line 14, in ?
File “/root/build/ecdsa/setup.py”, line 5, in ?
from ecdsa.six import print_
File “ecdsa/init.py”, line 3
from .keys import SigningKey, VerifyingKey, BadSignatureError, BadDigestError
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
Traceback (most recent call last):

File “”, line 14, in ?

File “/root/build/ecdsa/setup.py”, line 5, in ?

from ecdsa.six import print_

File “ecdsa/init.py”, line 3

from .keys import SigningKey, VerifyingKey, BadSignatureError, BadDigestError

^

SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Usually I have some idea on what to investigate next, but in this case. I’m stumped…

Mark

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Hrm yes, that seems to be broken because of a dependency issue. You can try and install a slightly older version of the ecdsa library first, to see if that gets you around the issue?

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The more correct answer here is Ansible on the control machine requires python 2.6 or higher.

The remote machines only need python 2.4 or higher.

4

Mark,

Were you able to install ansible? I am seeing the same error message and my python version is 2.7.2. I am installing on CentOS 5.6.

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Ansible does NOT support running on CentOS 5.X as a control machine.

It will manage them as guests.

I would highly recommend installing on 6.X, a Fedora, Ubuntu, or a Mac, as good/easy alternatives.

The reason for this is python 2.6 is on the control machine - you can do this if you know what you are doing, but we can’t really spend too much time helping with it, especially when problems are reported.