# Q: How to execute Ansible tasks on SLES 10 SP3

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/q-how-to-execute-ansible-tasks-on-sles-10-sp3/13582>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [September 30, 2013, 7:22pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/q-how-to-execute-ansible-tasks-on-sles-10-sp3/13582 "2013-09-30T19:22:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![Dale\_Quigg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/cab0a1/32.png) [@Dale\_Quigg](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Dale_Quigg)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2013, 7:22pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/q-how-to-execute-ansible-tasks-on-sles-10-sp3/13582/1 "2013-09-30T19:22:46Z")

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Hi,

I’m trying to run a simple config on SLES 10 SP3. Of course it has python 2.4 and I don’t know how/where to get python-simplejson installed.

I didn’t find it via zypper search  
Downloading simplejson-2.0.9.tar.gz, extracting, and invoking python ./ez\_setup.py resulted in

Any tips/pointers appreciated.

Thanks,  
Dale

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**Author:** ![Dale\_Quigg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/cab0a1/32.png) [@Dale\_Quigg](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Dale_Quigg)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2013, 7:24pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/q-how-to-execute-ansible-tasks-on-sles-10-sp3/13582/2 "2013-09-30T19:24:13Z")

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Arg… Clicked send accidentally…

Downloading simplejson-2.0.9.tar.gz, extracting, and invoking ‘python ./ez\_setup.py’ resulted in

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**Author:** ![Michael\_DeHaan2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/da6949/32.png) [@Michael\_DeHaan2](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan2)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2013, 7:36pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/q-how-to-execute-ansible-tasks-on-sles-10-sp3/13582/3 "2013-09-30T19:36:45Z")

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The general way to install simplejson ignoring os packages is:

easy\_install pip  
pip install simplejson

Though you may wish to use a simplejson RPM you have available