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problem in installing ansible on CentOS-8.5.2111-x86_64

I need to install ansible on CentOS-8.5.2111-x86_64 but i have an error

[root@ansible3 ~]# yum install ansible
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Error:
 Problem: conflicting requests
  - nothing provides python3.9dist(ansible-core) needed by ansible-6.3.0-1.el8.noarch
  - nothing provides (python3.9dist(ansible-core) >= 2.13.3 with python3.9dist(ansible-core) < 2.14) needed by ansible-6.3.0-1.el8.noarch
(try to add '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable packages or '--nobest' to use not only best candidate packages)

the steps i have done

  1. first installed epel release by command [yum install -y epel-release]
  2. then install python3 by yum install python3
  3. and then trying to install ansible by the above command and the error is attached
Solution

  • If you execute command python3, what Python version does the prompt return?

    Higher Ansible versions require Python3.9+. CentOS 8 is usually packed w a lower python version.

    You can try to install it by locating where python3.9 is actually installed on the machine, and then install it via the pip3 module.

    Try:

    yum install python3-pip -y
python3 -m pip install ansible

    It might install a lower version of Ansible.