Install Ansible on CentOS 8 if you get ansible-core >= 2.12.2 with ansible-core < 2.13

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In order to install Ansible on Centos 8; epel-release package needs to be installed. Due to Centos8 end of life, no new packages and security updates are not maintained and all repos has moved under vault.centos.org thus CentOS-* repos need to replace then we can install epel-release. Once you install epel-release ansilbe installation gives below error since June 2022.

nothing provides (ansible-core >= 2.12.2 with ansible-core < 2.13) needed by ansible-5.4.0-2.el8.noarch (try to add '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable packages or '--nobest' to use not only best candidate packages)

The recommended way to install Ansible is through pip, not through the OS package manager: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/installation_guide/intro_installation.html — β.εηοιτ.βε, Jun 23 '22 at 10:28

score 2 · Answer 1 · edited Jun 23 '22 at 10:32

The solutions for that I have created a small script it changes centos-repos and install epel-relase then changes epel's repo and install Ansible 2.9.27-1.el8 with all dependencies.

#!/bin/bash
set -ex

# Add EPEL repository

osV=$(rpm --eval '%{centos_ver}')

if [ "$osV" == "8" ]; then
    cd /etc/yum.repos.d/
    sudo sed -i 's/mirrorlist/#mirrorlist/g' /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-*
    sudo sed -i 's|#baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org|baseurl=http://vault.centos.org|g' /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-*

    sudo yum install -y epel-release
    sudo sed -i 's/metalink/#metalink/g' /etc/yum.repos.d/epel*
    sudo sed -i 's|#baseurl=https://download.example/pub/|baseurl=https://mirror.init7.net/fedora/|g' /etc/yum.repos.d/epel*
else
   sudo yum install -y epel-release
fi

sudo yum install -y ansible

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 12 '22 at 09:55

I also stucked by this question,and centos version was 8.5.2111 (not centos stream)

and i just manually download ansible-core.rpm and it's dependency and install them,

then i can install the ansible by dnf install ansible

the detail step was:

wget http://mirror.centos.org/centos/8-stream/AppStream/x86_64/os/Packages/ansible-core-2.12.2-3.el8.x86_64.rpm
wget http://mirror.centos.org/centos/8-stream/AppStream/aarch64/os/Packages/python38-resolvelib-0.5.4-5.el8.noarch.rpm
wget http://mirror.centos.org/centos/8-stream/AppStream/x86_64/os/Packages/sshpass-1.09-4.el8.x86_64.rpm
rpm -ivh python38-resolvelib-0.5.4-5.el8.noarch.rpm
rpm -ivh sshpass-1.09-4.el8.x86_64.rpm
rpm -ivh ansible-core-2.12.2-3.el8.x86_64.rpm

Install Ansible on CentOS 8 if you get ansible-core >= 2.12.2 with ansible-core < 2.13

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