Listing installed packages

lift...@gmail.com

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Oct 14, 2021, 1:21:45 PM10/14/21

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I know I can use the package_facts module to retrieve a list of installed packages, but I'm having trouble formatting these. I'd like to format it similar to the following:

Package: <package> Version: <version>

Currently I'm doing the following (I'm showing only httpd but ultimately I'd like to list out ALL installed packages:

---

- hosts: localhost

become: true

become_method: sudo

gather_facts: no

tasks:

- name: Get installed packages

package_facts:

register: packages

- name: Debug output

debug:

msg: "{{ packages.ansible_facts.packages['httpd'] }}"

The debug print is giving me the following:

TASK [Debug output] ******************************************************************************************************************************

ok: [localhost] => {

"msg": [

{

"arch": "x86_64",

"epoch": null,

"name": "httpd",

"release": "97.el7_9",

"source": "rpm",

"version": "2.4.6"

}

]

}

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Harry

Jean-Yves LENHOF

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Oct 14, 2021, 1:53:53 PM10/14/21

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You can use templating to have it on one line...

But be careful :
- you can have more than one version of a package installed. Example:
kernel
- you can have one x86_64 and one i686 or i386 version of a package
installed

Regards,

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Dick Visser

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Oct 14, 2021, 1:54:31 PM10/14/21

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This very question was asked (and answered) a few weeks ago:

https://groups.google.com/g/ansible-project/c/FsrlY_57hfo/m/x8jt7LMuBQAJ

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