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Rostislav Udaltsov
Rostislav Udaltsov

Reputation: 75

Installing the deb package via ansible

I am trying to install a deb package on a remote server using ansible, using the following construction

- name: Install deb
  delegate_to: app1
  apt:
    deb: https://example.com/deb/package.deb

or

- name: Install deb
  delegate_to: app1
  apt:
    deb: /path/to/deb

playbook works, says that everything is ok, but in fact the package is not installed, if you connect to a remote server and manually run apt install /path/to/deb, then the package is installed. I tried to copy deb to the server using ansible and install it by downloading the package from an Internet resource, the result is always the same

Upvotes: 5

Views: 22888

Answers (2)

KrishnaR
KrishnaR

Reputation: 420

You have to use the privilege escalation methods become and become_method: sudo for Ansible. Installing a package need sudo privilege.

- name: Install deb
  delegate_to: app1
  apt:
    deb: /path/to/deb
  become: true

Upvotes: 10

Rostislav Udaltsov
Rostislav Udaltsov

Reputation: 75

The following modification of the task helped

- name: Install deb
  command: apt install /path/to/package.deb -y --allow-downgrades

The allow_downgrade directive for the apt module appeared, starting with the ansible 2.12 version in my 2.9 it did not work, as the force directive did not work, I had to implement the task using a not very nice method.

Upvotes: -2

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