How can install specific version of ansible?

Question

How can I install a specific version of Ansible, using Yum or another method?

When I try to install version 2.0 it says No package 2.0 available.

I checked the epel repo. There are only two rpms, but no rpm containing version 2.0. Why are they removed? Is there any way to install a specific version of ansible, like 2.0?

Solution

I would recommend pip:

sudo pip install 'ansible==2.0.0.1' 

More information on ansible[1] and pip[2] documentation.

And if you want to have more than one installed version, just use create virtualenv:

virtualenv .env
source .env/bin/activate
pip install 'ansible==2.2.0.0'

and only this terminal will use this specific version of Ansible. Then repeat the process for each combination you want.

Comments

[Admin]

Use the source, Luke!

[Admin]

yum list|grep -i ansible did output ansible.noarch 2.1.2.0-1.el7 in epel repo

[Admin]

yes "ansible.noarch 2.1.2.0-1.el6 epel"

[Admin]

I recall a co-worker recently handled an Ansible upgrade—you should know that it's only recently that Ansible became available via RPM. Prior to that it was only available as a tarball. I believe that was version 2.0 that we were upgrading from. In other words, I don't think there ever was an RPM for Ansible 2.0. (I haven't researched the matter myself, though.)

[undersound]

ansible=2.0.0.1 should be ansible==2.0.0.1

[Snowcrash]

This doesn't work. After running those 3 steps I ran ansible --version in the exact same terminal and environment and it was still running my old version.

[WangJie]

@Snowcrash which version are you trying to install and which version are you getting instead?