# Problems importing an inventory using awx-manage

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/problems-importing-an-inventory-using-awx-manage/36114>\
**Category:** AWX Project\
**Tags:** awx\
**Created:** [December 15, 2021, 1:02pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/problems-importing-an-inventory-using-awx-manage/36114 "2021-12-15T13:02:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![Andrew\_C](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/858c86/32.png) [@Andrew\_C](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Andrew_C)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2021, 1:02pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/problems-importing-an-inventory-using-awx-manage/36114/1 "2021-12-15T13:02:41Z")

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I want to import an inventory file into AWX 19.05 but the command fails:

$ kubectl cp /tmp/inventory awx/awx-demo-786447d7bc-h4jhj:/tmp/inventory -c awx-demo-task

$ awx-manage inventory\_import --source=/tmp/inventory --inventory-id=1 --overwrite

sh-4.4$ awx-manage inventory\_import --source=/tmp/inventory --inventory-id=1 --overwrite  
1.355 INFO Updating inventory 1: Demo Inventory  
2021-12-15 12:57:36,150 DEBUG [-] awx.analytics.job\_lifecycle inventoryupdate-24 created  
1.404 INFO Reading Ansible inventory source: /tmp/inventory  
Traceback (most recent call last):  
File “/usr/bin/awx-manage”, line 8, in   
sys.exit(manage())  
File “/var/lib/awx/venv/awx/lib64/python3.8/site-packages/awx/ **init**.py”, line 171, in manage  
execute\_from\_command\_line(sys.argv)  
File “/var/lib/awx/venv/awx/lib64/python3.8/site-packages/django/core/management/ **init**.py”, line 381, in execute\_from\_command\_line  
utility.execute()  
File “/var/lib/awx/venv/awx/lib64/python3.8/site-packages/django/core/management/ **init**.py”, line 375, in execute  
self.fetch\_command(subcommand).run\_from\_argv(self.argv)  
File “/var/lib/awx/venv/awx/lib64/python3.8/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py”, line 323, in run\_from\_argv  
self.execute(\*args, \*\*cmd\_options)  
File “/var/lib/awx/venv/awx/lib64/python3.8/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py”, line 364, in execute  
output = self.handle(\*args, \*\*options)  
File “/var/lib/awx/venv/awx/lib64/python3.8/site-packages/awx/main/management/commands/inventory\_import.py”, line 854, in handle  
data = AnsibleInventoryLoader(source=source, verbosity=verbosity).load()  
File “/var/lib/awx/venv/awx/lib64/python3.8/site-packages/awx/main/management/commands/inventory\_import.py”, line 118, in load  
return self.command\_to\_json(base\_args)  
File “/var/lib/awx/venv/awx/lib64/python3.8/site-packages/awx/main/management/commands/inventory\_import.py”, line 96, in command\_to\_json  
proc = subprocess.Popen(cmd, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE)  
File “/usr/lib64/python3.8/subprocess.py”, line 858, in **init**  
self.\_execute\_child(args, executable, preexec\_fn, close\_fds,  
File “/usr/lib64/python3.8/subprocess.py”, line 1706, in \_execute\_child  
raise child\_exception\_type(errno\_num, err\_msg, err\_filename)  
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: ‘podman’

I have tried all kinds of combinations of this command and no matter what I put the error is always the same, even when I call the file podman?

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**Author:** ![Andrew\_C](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/858c86/32.png) [@Andrew\_C](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Andrew_C)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2021, 1:04pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/problems-importing-an-inventory-using-awx-manage/36114/2 "2021-12-15T13:04:07Z")

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Can anybody think of a way I can get an inventory file and read it directly into AWX?