My first steps: apt module

[Peter Kaagman]

Hi there group,

I'm making my first baby steps with ansible. After fooling around with ad-hoc command I thought I'd make the steps to playbooks. Looks promissing :D
Ultimate goal is managing my switches, have been playing around with my Ubuntu systems thought. Thought I'd automate my update cyle... wrote a playbook for it (with help from severall posts I found on the web:

---
- hosts: somehost
  tasks:
    - name: Update and upgrade
      become: true
      apt:
        upgrade: safe
        update_cache: yes
        autoremove: yes

this playbook breaks on the autoremove... and I can't figure out why

PLAY ***************************************************************************

TASK [setup] *******************************************************************
ok: [somehost]

TASK [Update and upgrade] ******************************************************
fatal: [somehost]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "failed": true, "msg": "unsupported parameter for module: autoremove"}

PLAY RECAP *********************************************************************
somehost        : ok=1    changed=0    unreachable=0    failed=1

When I look at the documentation for the APT module "yes" seems to be a correct vallue for autoremove.

Had a simular issue with "upgrade", but this was resolved by installing "aptitude" on the remote host. Allso made sure I've got "python-apt" installed.

Any help would be apreciated :D

Peter

[Dick Davies]

Old version? http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/apt_module.html says:

"autoremove
(added in 2.1)"

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[Peter Kaagman]

Hmmm

pkn@chronos-2017:~$ ansible --version
ansible 2.0.0.2
  config file = /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg
  configured module search path = Default w/o overrides

Yup :(

Op maandag 24 juli 2017 13:57:52 UTC+2 schreef Dick Davies:

[Peter Kaagman]

Thanks for your help Dick.... did solve the autoremove issue :D

Op maandag 24 juli 2017 13:57:52 UTC+2 schreef Dick Davies:

Old version? http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/apt_module.html says: