Install ansible on Centos7 using pip3

Question

Ive installed ansible version 2.9.25 (latest for centos) but it’s failing to download a file using the ‘get_url’ module and everything I google seems to point to using python2 as opposed to python3. So I'm trying to install ansible via pip3 which the documentation claims will install ansible using python3 but gives Unicode Error:

# pip3 install ansible
Collecting ansible
  Using cached ansible-4.6.0.tar.gz (35.6 MB)
Collecting ansible-core<2.12,>=2.11.5
  Using cached ansible-core-2.11.5.tar.gz (6.8 MB)
ERROR: Exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pip/_internal/cli/base_command.py", line 173, in _main
    status = self.run(options, args)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pip/_internal/cli/req_command.py", line 203, in wrapper
    return func(self, options, args)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pip/_internal/commands/install.py", line 316, in run
    reqs, check_supported_wheels=not options.target_dir
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pip/_internal/resolution/resolvelib/resolver.py", line 95, in resolve
    collected.requirements, max_rounds=try_to_avoid_resolution_too_deep
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pip/_vendor/resolvelib/resolvers.py", line 472, in resolve
    state = resolution.resolve(requirements, max_rounds=max_rounds)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pip/_vendor/resolvelib/resolvers.py", line 366, in resolve
    failure_causes = self._attempt_to_pin_criterion(name)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pip/_vendor/resolvelib/resolvers.py", line 212, in _attempt_to_pin_criterion
    criteria = self._get_updated_criteria(candidate)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pip/_vendor/resolvelib/resolvers.py", line 203, in _get_updated_criteria
    self._add_to_criteria(criteria, requirement, parent=candidate)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pip/_vendor/resolvelib/resolvers.py", line 172, in _add_to_criteria
    if not criterion.candidates:
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pip/_vendor/resolvelib/structs.py", line 151, in __bool__
    return bool(self._sequence)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pip/_internal/resolution/resolvelib/found_candidates.py", line 140, in __bool__
    return any(self)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pip/_internal/resolution/resolvelib/found_candidates.py", line 128, in <genexpr>
    return (c for c in iterator if id(c) not in self._incompatible_ids)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pip/_internal/resolution/resolvelib/found_candidates.py", line 32, in _iter_built
    candidate = func()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pip/_internal/resolution/resolvelib/factory.py", line 209, in _make_candidate_from_link
    version=version,
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pip/_internal/resolution/resolvelib/candidates.py", line 301, in __init__
    version=version,
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pip/_internal/resolution/resolvelib/candidates.py", line 156, in __init__
    self.dist = self._prepare()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pip/_internal/resolution/resolvelib/candidates.py", line 227, in _prepare
    dist = self._prepare_distribution()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pip/_internal/resolution/resolvelib/candidates.py", line 306, in _prepare_distribution
    self._ireq, parallel_builds=True
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pip/_internal/operations/prepare.py", line 508, in prepare_linked_requirement
    return self._prepare_linked_requirement(req, parallel_builds)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pip/_internal/operations/prepare.py", line 552, in _prepare_linked_requirement
    self.download_dir, hashes
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pip/_internal/operations/prepare.py", line 249, in unpack_url
    unpack_file(file.path, location, file.content_type)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pip/_internal/utils/unpacking.py", line 256, in unpack_file
    untar_file(filename, location)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pip/_internal/utils/unpacking.py", line 226, in untar_file
    with open(path, "wb") as destfp:
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character '\xe9' in position 117: ordinal not in range(128)

Commands I've ran to try fix:

pip3 install setuptools_rust
pip3 install --upgrade pip
pip3 install ansible 
sudo yum install gcc libffi-devel python3-dev python-devel openssl-devel
sudo yum install -y git python-devel python-pip gcc gcc-c++

Other solutions I've tried: https://github.com/paramiko/paramiko/issues/1027#issuecomment-371754576

Current setup:

# pip --version
pip 21.2.4 from /usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pip (python 3.6)
# pip3 --version
pip 21.2.4 from /usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pip (python 3.6)
# python --version
Python 2.7.5
# python3 --version
Python 3.6.8

Please let me know if there's any other information I can provide!

Answer 1

I've had similar errors. Console/terminal must use UTF-8 locale, not ASCII. Set environment variable LC_CTYPE or LC_ALL to C.UTF-8 or en_US.UTF-8:

LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
export LC_CTYPE

After installation ansible can be used with any locale. Only installation requires UTF-8.