Install Ansible with pipx

Use pipx in your environment to install the full Ansible package:

pipx install --include-deps ansible

You can install the minimal ansible-core package:

pipx install ansible-core

Alternately, you can install a specific version of ansible-core

pipx install ansible-core==2.12.3

Install Ansible with pip

Locate and remember the path to the Python interpreter you wish to use to run Ansible. The following instructions refer to this Python as python3. For example, if you have determined that you want the Python at /usr/bin/python3.9 to be the one that you will install Ansible under, specify that instead of python3

To verify whether pip is already installed for your preferred Python

python3 -m pip -V

If all is well, you should see something like the following:

pip 21.0.1 from /usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pip (python 3.9)

If you see an error like No module named pip, you will need to install pip under your chosen Python interpreter before proceeding. This may mean installing an additional OS package (for example, python3-pip), or installing the latest pip directly from the Python Packaging Authority by running the following:

curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py -o get-pip.py
python3 get-pip.py --user

If so, pip is available, and you can move on to the install ansible

Use pip in your selected Python environment to install the full Ansible package for the current user:

python3 -m pip install --user ansible

You can install the minimal ansible-core package for the current user:

python3 -m pip install --user ansible

You can install the minimal ansible-core package for the current user:

python3 -m pip install --user ansible-core

Install Ansible on Ubuntu 22.04

The easiest way to install Ansible on ubuntu 22.04 is to use the apt package manager.

Add a new Ansible repository to the list of software sources that your system uses to install and update software packages.

sudo apt-add-repository -y ppa:ansible/ansible

Update the package index using the following command

sudo apt-get update

If you get the following error You are probably missing the python-software-properties package.

sudo: add-apt-repository: command not found

Install it using the following command.

sudo apt-get install python-software-properties

Lastly you can install the Ansible software with:

sudo apt install ansible -y

Confirm your installation

You can test that Ansible is installed correctly by checking the version:

ansible --version