How do i install an ansible galaxy role from a tar.gz file as non-root user ?

[Hans Lammerts]

Hi,

I have seen a number of sites that explain how to install a role from a tar.gz file using ansible-galaxy, and they all seem to say the same thing.
In my case I have downloaded the following role file from ansible galaxy :
dsglaser-cis_security-1.2.0.tar.gz

Then I tried to install

ansible-galaxy collection install dsglaser-cis_security-1.2.0.tar.gz

which gives me the warning :

[WARNING]: - collection was NOT installed successfully: Failed to get data from the API server (https://galaxy.ansible.com/api/): Failed to connect to galaxy.ansible.com at port 443: [Errno 104] Connection reset by peer

This is correct, because this machine is not, and never will be connected to the internet.

Another attempt :

ansible-galaxy install dsglaser-cis_security-1.2.0.tar.gz

results in another warning:
[WARNING]: - dsglaser-cis_security-1.2.0.tar.gz was NOT installed successfully: the specified roles path exists and is not a directory.

Also tried using the -p option to indicate where I want the role to be installed, with and without the directory present, but every attempt resulted in the last warning.

I'm **not** doing this as root...
Ansible version is 2.8.13

Just discovered that the command

ansible-galaxy install dsglaser-cis_security-1.2.0.tar.gz -p ./bla

does work, but only as root. And that's not what I want...

What am I doing wrong ?
 

[Luca 'remix_tj' Lorenzetto]

On Sat, Aug 15, 2020 at 2:56 PM Hans Lammerts <j.lam...@chello.nl> wrote:
> Just discovered that the command
>
> ansible-galaxy install dsglaser-cis_security-1.2.0.tar.gz -p ./bla
>
> does work, but only as root. And that's not what I want...
>
> What am I doing wrong ?

It's very strange, maybe ./bla directory is root owned?

You should be able to run this command without being root.

Luca


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