yum + what is the message - No package ansible available
I am try to install the ansible tool on my linux red-hat version - 5.7
yum install ansible
Loaded plugins: security
Setting up Install Process
No package ansible available.
Nothing to do
ansible isnt installed on my linux machine - for sure!
so why I get - No package ansible available. and how to resolve this?
the view from yum.repos.d is:
/etc/yum.repos.d]# ls
rhel-debuginfo.repo rhel-source.repo service-cd-repo.repo stp-default- repo.repo
I have resolving as the following:
ping 8.8.8.8
PING 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=1 ttl=50 time=63.4 ms
Update - try to install epel-release package
yum install epel-release
Loaded plugins: security
service-cd | 951 B 00:00
swp-default | 951 B 00:00
Setting up Install Process
No package epel-release available.
Nothing to do
second update:
wget --no-check-certificate https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel- release-latest-5.noarch.rpm
--2015-08-17 14:54:20-- https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel- release-latest-5.noarch.rpm
Resolving dl.fedoraproject.org... 209.132.181.26, 209.132.181.27, 209.132.181.25, ...
Connecting to dl.fedoraproject.org|209.132.181.26|:443... connected.
WARNING: cannot verify dl.fedoraproject.org's certificate, issued by `/C=US/O=DigiCert Inc/OU=www.digicert.com/CN=DigiCert SHA2 Hig:
Unable to locally verify the issuer's authority.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 12232 (12K) [application/x-rpm]
Saving to: `epel-release-latest-5.noarch.rpm'
100% [==========================================================================================>] 12,232 54.0K/s in 0.2s
2015-08-17 14:54:22 (54.0 KB/s) - `epel-release-latest-5.noarch.rpm.1' saved [12232/12232]
rpm -ivh epel-release-latest-5.noarch.rpm
warning: epel-release-latest-5.noarch.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 217521f6
Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
yum repolist
Loaded plugins: security
epel | 3.7 kB 00:00
service-cd | 951 B 00:00
swp-default | 951 B 00:00
repo id repo name status
epel Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 5 - i386 5,411
service-cd RHEL5 service-cd repository 155
swp-default RHEL5 yum repository 239
repolist: 5,805
yum install ansible
Loaded plugins: security
Setting up Install Process
No package ansible available.
Nothing to do
Answer
Ansible is part of the Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) repository so you need to install epel-release package first
$ sudo yum install epel-release
The repo should now be visible in the repo list
$ sudo yum repolist
So now you can go ahead and install ansible
$ sudo yum install ansible
Before RHEL 7.x, the installtion needed to be done manually. Open install epel-release package and download the newest version of epel-release for EL5 or follow the commands below
$ wget https://archives.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/epel/5/x86_64/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm
$ sudo rpm –ivh epel-release-latest-5.noarch.rpm
$ sudo yum repolist
$ sudo yum install ansible
In the installation manual for ansible, this is referred to as configure EPEL
Hope this helps :)
Response to second update
When installing manually you may also need to expire your cache and recreate the the local repository database before you can install software from EPEL. That can be done with the following
$ yum clean expire-cache
$ yum createrepo