1. Update apt
sudo apt-get update
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Fetched 7978 kB in 1min 41s (79.3 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
2. Install Python etc
sudo apt-get install python-pip git libffi-dev libssl-dev -y
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W: APT had planned for dpkg to do more than it reported back (330 vs 356).
Affected packages: libgdbm-compat4:amd64 libgdbm6:amd64 libperl5.28:amd64 perl-base:amd64 perl-modules-5.28:amd64
3. Install Ansible and Pywinrm
pip install ansible pywinrm
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done
Stored in directory: /home/jason/.cache/pip/wheels/41/79/b5/1f6f77b8a80eab71e9edd46169ab72940d15dba1e346a64134
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**** The script chardetect is installed in '/home/jason/.local/bin' which is not on PATH.
Consider adding this directory to PATH or, if you prefer to suppress this warning, use --no-warn-script-location.
Successfully installed MarkupSafe-1.1.1 PyYAML-5.3.1 ansible-2.10.3 ansible-base-2.10.3 certifi-2020.11.8 chardet-3.0.4 idna-2.10 jinja2-2.11.2 ntlm-auth-1.5.0 packaging-20.4 pyparsing-2.4.7 pywinrm-0.4.1 requests-2.25.0 requests-ntlm-1.1.0 urllib3-1.26.2 xmltodict-0.12.0 ****
4. Add Ansible to $PATH
ansible --version
Command 'ansible' not found, but can be installed with:
sudo apt install ansible
# Add Ansible command installation dir to the $PATH
echo 'PATH=$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH' >> ~/.bashrc
# Reload bash profile
source .bashrc
5. Verify success
ansible --version
ansible 2.10.3
config file = None
configured module search path = [u'/home/jason/.ansible/plugins/modules', u'/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules']
ansible python module location = /home/jason/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible
executable location = /home/jason/.local/bin/ansible
python version = 2.7.17 (default, Sep 30 2020, 13:38:04) [GCC 7.5.0]
Reference link: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2017/using-ansible-through-windows-10s-subsystem-linux