Failed to install package NTP

[arjungoel 1995]

Hi, I was just testing a basic playbook in Ansible. Here is the playbook code:

---

- name: Set up NTP on all servers

  hosts: all

  become: true

  tasks:

    - name: Ensure NTP is installed

      yum:

        name: ntp

        state: present

    - name: Ensure NTP is running

      service:

        name: ntpd

        state: started

        enabled: yes

When I am running the ansible-playbook playbook.yaml command, I am getting this error:

TASK [Ensure NTP is installed] ****************************************************************************************************************
fatal: [3.226.126.95]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "failures": ["No package ntp available."], "msg": "Failed to install some of the specified packages", "rc": 1, "results": []}

PLAY RECAP ************************************************************************************************************************************
3.226.126.95               : ok=1    changed=0    unreachable=0    failed=1    skipped=0    rescued=0    ignored=0  

Please help me.

[Mike Eggleston]

ntpd?

Mike

On Jul 22, 2023, at 14:27, arjungoel 1995 <arjung...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi, I was just testing a basic playbook in Ansible. Here is the playbook code:

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[Todd Lewis]

Maybe chrony rather than ntp? What OS is your target host running?

[Rilindo Foster]

Given that the OP is using YUM resource, very likely a RHEL-like distribution, which certainly meant RHEL 8, since the NTP daemon appears to be no longer supported in that version.

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[Todd Lewis]

In that case (RHEL8), definitely `chrony`.

[Dick Visser]

So, concluding, nothing in this thread is ansible related, but OS
specific package convention related instead :)

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[arjungoel 1995]

I have tried Chrony as well but same issue persists.

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[Thanh Nguyen Duc]

Try it locally by command: yum install ntpd or chrony or dnf install chrony ansible just help you to install it remotely. The error come from your local host.

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[Richard Megginson]

If you need to manage time synchronization on an EL system (RHEL6-RHEL9, CentOS, Fedora) then I strongly encourage you to use the timesync system role https://github.com/linux-system-roles/timesync/, available in the fedora.linux_system_roles collection https://galaxy.ansible.com/fedora/linux_system_roles, and maintained by Miroslav Lichvar, the maintainer of chrony - this will take care of installing the right packages, managing the right services, etc.

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[Rilindo Foster]

If OP is using actual Red Hat, they can directly install it via dnf/yum

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