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How can I get the installed apt packages with Ansible?

I am trying to list all installed packages on my Debian 7 (Wheezy), 8 (Jessie), and 9 (Stretch) machines. There are easy ways dealing with it using APT or dpkg, but I could not find a proper way to do this with Ansible out of the box.

Is there a nice and smooth way to do this?

For RHEL machines I found this post: How can I get the installed YUM packages with Ansible?

Solution

  • It doesn't look like Ansible provides any modules that would support this. You'll have to use shell or command.

    - name: Get packages
  shell: dpkg-query -f '${binary:Package}\n' -W
  register: packages

- name: Print packages
  debug:
    msg: "{{ packages.stdout_lines }}"