Unable to install python-minimal

[Eric]

I'm running an Ansible playbook to use the raw module, to install python-minimal.

The host is reachable.

The host can be SSH'ed into as root.

However, when running the playbook below, it fails.

It gives the error:

    "module_stdout": "bash: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (en_US.UTF-8)\r\n/bin/sh: 1: /usr/bin/python: not found\r\n",

---
# https://gist.github.com/gwillem/4ba393dceb55e5ae276a87300f6b8e6f
- hosts: all

  tasks:
  - name: install python 2
    raw: test -e /usr/bin/python || (apt -y update && apt install -y python-minimal)

[Eric]

However, it works when run manually:

ansible -i all.yml -m raw -a "apt install -y python-minimal"

[Kai Stian Olstad]

On 23. sep. 2017 03:28, Eric wrote:
>
> I'm running an Ansible playbook to use the raw module, to install
> python-minimal.
>
> The host is reachable.
> The host can be SSH'ed into as root.
>
> However, when running the playbook below, it fails.
>
> It gives the error:
>
> "module_stdout": "bash: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change
> locale (en_US.UTF-8)\r\n/bin/sh: 1: /usr/bin/python: not found\r\n",

The problem is that you don't provide the whole error message, if you
had you probably would have gotten an answer several days ago.

So without the error message I can only guess, but default Ansible has
gather facts on, so you need to turn it off.


--
Kai Stian Olstad

[Mischa ter Smitten]

This is what we use:

---
- hosts: ubuntu-1604
  gather_facts: no
  pre_tasks:
    # Needed because python is not installed
    - name: install python (if needed)
      raw: test -e /usr/bin/python || (apt update -y && apt install -y python-minimal)
      register: _python_minimal
      changed_when: _python_minimal.stdout_lines | length > 0

[Eric]

gather_facts was what I needed!