what does this mean?

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Keep getting this error when running my playbook

The full traceback is:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/tmp/ansible_community.vmware.vmware_local_user_manager_payload_jdgh1vij/ansible_community.vmware.vmware_local_user_manager_payload.zip/ansible_collections/community/vmware/plugins/module_utils/vmware.py”, line 25, in
import requests
ImportError: No module named ‘requests’
fatal: [myesxserver]: FAILED! => {
“changed”: false,
“invocation”: {
“module_args”: {
“hostname”: “myesxserver”,
“local_user_description”: null,
“local_user_name”: “root”,
“local_user_password”: “VALUE_SPECIFIED_IN_NO_LOG_PARAMETER”,
“password”: “VALUE_SPECIFIED_IN_NO_LOG_PARAMETER”,
“port”: 443,
“proxy_host”: null,
“proxy_port”: null,
“state”: “present”,
“username”: “root”,
“validate_certs”: false
}
},
“msg”: “Failed to import the required Python library (requests) on myesxserver’s Python /usr/bin/python3. Please read module documentation and install in the appropriate location. If the required library is installed, but Ansible is using the wrong Python interpreter, please consult the documentation on ansible_python_interpreter”
}

any idea what it mean?

2

You need to have a proper pip package on local machine / target machine to run your modules (not for all module if you check in module documentation full fill prerequisites)

Here you need to do pip install requests
//vinoth

3

Firstly try to install pip package on the local machine using proper commend

yum/apt-get install python-pip

4

As the message says `(requests) on myesxserver's Python
/usr/bin/python3` , this is not pip itself but the python library
'requests' which you might have an OS package for or you can use pip3
to install and this needs to be on the target machine (myesxserver)
which is actually executing the code.