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@ -10,10 +10,10 @@ Requirements
Requirements for Ansible are extremely minimal.
Ansible is written for Python 2.6+. If you are running Python 2.5 on an "Enterprise Linux" variant, we'll show you how to add
2.6. Newer versions of Linux and OS X should already have 2.6 or higher.
On the central Ansible machine, you will need Python 2.6+. If you are running Python 2.5 on an "Enterprise Linux" variant, we'll show you how to add
2.6 to your distribution.
In additon to Python 2.6+, you will want the following Python modules (installed via pip or perhaps via your OS package manager via slightly different names):
You will also want the following Python modules (installed via pip or perhaps via your OS package manager via slightly different names):
* ``paramiko``
* ``PyYAML``
@ -25,7 +25,6 @@ If you are using RHEL or CentOS 5 , python is version 2.4 by default, but you ca
$ yum install python26 python26-PyYAML python26-paramiko python26-jinja2
On the managed nodes, you only need Python 2.4 or later, but if you are are running less than Python 2.6 on them, you will
also need:
@ -60,8 +59,8 @@ back to the project.
Instructions for installing from source are below.
Ansible's release cycles are about one month long. Due to this
short release cycle, any bugs will generally be fixed in the next release versus maintaining
Ansible's release cycles are usually about two months long. Due to this
short release cycle, minor bugs will generally be fixed in the next release versus maintaining
backports on the stable branch.
You may also wish to follow the `Github project <https://github.com/ansible/ansible>`_ if
@ -109,13 +108,19 @@ using "make install". This is done through `python-distutils`:
$ cd ./ansible
$ sudo make install
Release Tarballs
++++++++++++++++
For those that do not want to use git or a package manager, (or for packagers themselves),
tarballs of past Ansible releases are available at `http://ansibleworks.com/releases/ <http://ansibleworks.com/releases>`_.
Via Pip
+++++++
Are you a python developer?
Ansible can be installed via Pip, but when you do so, it will ask to install other dependencies used for
optional modes::
things like 'fireball' mode that you might not need::
$ sudo easy_install pip
$ sudo pip install ansible