Install lxml for community.general.xml

[Jason Wood]

I am running Ansible on Ubuntu 20.04.

I'd like to use the community.general.xml module.

I get a "ModuleNotFoundError" relating to lxml when I try to run the playbook.

I tried sudo apt-get install python3-lxml

There were errors toward the end of the process:

...

Setting up ansible (5.2.0-1ppa~focal) ...
Killed
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/py3compile", line 290, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/bin/py3compile", line 269, in main
    compile(files, versions,
  File "/usr/bin/py3compile", line 187, in compile
    pipe.send(fn)
  File "/usr/bin/py3compile", line 138, in py_compile
    stdin.write(filename.encode('utf-8') + b'\n')
BrokenPipeError: [Errno 32] Broken pipe
dpkg: error processing package ansible (--configure):
 installed ansible package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
Setting up python3-soupsieve (1.9.5+dfsg-1) ...
Setting up python3-bs4 (4.8.2-1) ...
Setting up python3-lxml:arm64 (4.5.0-1ubuntu0.5) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.31-0ubuntu9.2) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 ansible
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

...and I still get the same error when running the playbook.

Note (in case this matters): when I run ansible --version, I get:

ansible [core 2.12.1]
  config file = /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg
  configured module search path = ['/home/ubuntu/.ansible/plugins/modules', '/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules']
  ansible python module location = /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/ansible
  ansible collection location = /home/ubuntu/.ansible/collections:/usr/share/ansible/collections
  executable location = /usr/bin/ansible
  python version = 3.8.10 (default, Nov 26 2021, 20:14:08) [GCC 9.3.0]
  jinja version = 2.10.1
  libyaml = True

Jason