Installing Ansible 2.2 on Fedora 25

As part of my ongoing investigation of the usability of various Linux distributions and desktop environments, I’ve been working with Fedora 25. As part of the investigation I need to see how to perform certain tasks, one of which is working with Ansible. As a result, I needed to install Ansible 2.2 on Fedora 25, and it turns out it wasn’t as simple as pip install ansible.

I generally prefer to run Ansible in a Python virtualenv, but I don’t believe that it will make any difference to this procedure. However, I’m happy to be corrected if someone knows otherwise.

To create a Python virtualenv, you’ll first need virtualenv installed. I prefer to install virtualenv globally for all users using this command:

sudo -H pip install virtualenv

Once virtualenv is installed, then create a virtualenv for Ansible:

virtualenv ~/Envs ansible

Then activate the virtualenv:

source ~/Envs/ansible/bin/activate

At this point, you can try a pip install ansible, but it will fail. First, you need to install some additional development libraries that are required in order to install Ansible:

sudo dnf install libffi-devel redhat-rpm-config python-devel openssl-devel

Once those packages are installed, then you’re finally ready to install Ansible into the virtualenv:

pip install ansible

(Note that sudo is not used here because you are installing Ansible into your own virtual environment.)

That’s it—you’re now ready to roll. Enjoy!

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