# Unable to install anisbile in Ubunut 8.7 Jessie

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/unable-to-install-anisbile-in-ubunut-8-7-jessie/33683>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [August 27, 2020, 6:44am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/unable-to-install-anisbile-in-ubunut-8-7-jessie/33683 "2020-08-27T06:44:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![Dileep\_P\_S](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Dileep\_P\_S](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Dileep_P_S)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2020, 6:44am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/unable-to-install-anisbile-in-ubunut-8-7-jessie/33683/1 "2020-08-27T06:44:52Z")

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Reading package lists… Done  
Building dependency tree  
Reading state information… Done  
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have  
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable  
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created  
or been moved out of Incoming.  
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:  
ansible : Depends: sshpass but it is not installable  
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.  
root@controller-node:~#

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**Author:** ![Dileep\_P\_S](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Dileep\_P\_S](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Dileep_P_S)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2020, 6:46am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/unable-to-install-anisbile-in-ubunut-8-7-jessie/33683/2 "2020-08-27T06:46:28Z")

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root@controller-node:~# add-apt-repository universe  
Error: ‘universe’ invalid  
root@controller-node:~#

Unable to add universe repository also