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Jean-Baptiste CHAUVIN
Jean-Baptiste CHAUVIN

Reputation: 31

Ansible unarchive: "Failed to find handler"

When I unarchive a file with Ansible, the following error occurred:

Failed to find handler to unarchive. Make sure the required command to extract the file is installed.

Is there a solution without installing the required modules (gtar / unzip).

Upvotes: 3

Views: 13626

Answers (3)

Daniel Andrzejewski
Daniel Andrzejewski

Reputation: 686

Make sure the archive file to be extracted is indeed an archive. In my case it was "HTML document, ASCII text, with very long lines (785)".

Example: https://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.lua/zookeeper/zookeeper-3.8.2/apache-zookeeper-3.8.2.tar.gz

Upvotes: 0

김병곤
김병곤

Reputation: 11

The same message might be output even if the source file type is not a compressed file.

Upvotes: 1

techraf
techraf

Reputation: 68469

No. Ansible is no magic, it is an automation tool which relies on commonly available tools to perform its tasks.

Per unarchive documentation:

requires gtar/unzip command on target host

If you look at the source, it looks for gtar (preferred) then tar and unzip.

You can always use command / shell modules to run any command you like, but still you'd need programs to extract from the archives on the target machine.

Upvotes: 7

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