# Pip install of Ansible on Ubuntu 16.04 results in broken ansible

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/pip-install-of-ansible-on-ubuntu-16-04-results-in-broken-ansible/26321>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Tags:** ubuntu\
**Created:** [December 18, 2017, 6:28pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/pip-install-of-ansible-on-ubuntu-16-04-results-in-broken-ansible/26321 "2017-12-18T18:28:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![Stephen\_Nesbitt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9adbd/32.png) [@Stephen\_Nesbitt](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Stephen_Nesbitt)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2017, 6:28pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/pip-install-of-ansible-on-ubuntu-16-04-results-in-broken-ansible/26321/1 "2017-12-18T18:28:55Z")

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After installing ansible using pip on an Ubuntu 16.04 system with python 3.5 results in the following error: ERROR! Unexpected Exception, this is probably a bug: (cryptography 1.2.3 (/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages), Requirement.parse(‘cryptography\>=1.5’), {‘paramiko’})

Here are my installation steps:

`apt-get update apt-get install python3.5-minimal easy_install3 pip ansible --help`

Any assistance would be appreciated.

-steve

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**Author:** ![Stephen\_Nesbitt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9adbd/32.png) [@Stephen\_Nesbitt](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Stephen_Nesbitt)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2017, 6:36pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/pip-install-of-ansible-on-ubuntu-16-04-results-in-broken-ansible/26321/2 "2017-12-18T18:36:12Z")

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Well I got it to work with the following command:

`  
pip install --upgrade --force-reinstall --no-cache-dir ansible

`

Some kind of caching issue?

-steve

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**Author:** ![Jamz\_Yaneza](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f05b48/32.png) [@Jamz\_Yaneza](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Jamz_Yaneza)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2019, 1:54am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/pip-install-of-ansible-on-ubuntu-16-04-results-in-broken-ansible/26321/3 "2019-04-16T01:54:31Z")

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Thank you. This saved me from reinstalling WSL 🙂

Cheers,  
Jamz