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guettli
guettli

Reputation: 27879

Ansible: No package matching 'nginx' is available

I have an Ansible playbook which worked on a different machine.

But here it fails:

fatal: [coffee-and-sugar.club]: FAILED! => 
{"changed": false, "msg": "No > package matching 'nginx' is available"}

---
- hosts: all
  tasks:
    - name: ensure nginx is at the latest version
      apt: name=nginx state=latest
    - name: start nginx
      service:
          name: nginx
          state: started

What could be wrong?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 3662

Answers (2)

sophie
sophie

Reputation: 78

guettli's answer is correct but you can also make it shorter, calling the apt module only once:

---
- hosts: all
  tasks:
    - name: Update and upgrade apt packages
      apt:
        name: nginx
        state: latest
        update_cache: yes
        upgrade: yes
    - name: start nginx
      service:
          name: nginx
          state: started

Upvotes: 4

guettli
guettli

Reputation: 27879

If the machine was setup up just some seconds ago, then you need to run apt update at least once.

You can do it like this via Ansible:

---
- hosts: all
  tasks:
    - name: Update and upgrade apt packages
      apt:
        update_cache: yes
        upgrade: yes
    - name: ensure nginx is at the latest version
      apt: name=nginx state=latest
    - name: start nginx
      service:
          name: nginx
          state: started

Upvotes: 2

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