According to http://docs.ansible.com/apt_module.html , the aptitude module allows you to install from a .deb file:
- apt: deb=/tmp/mypackage.deb
But running Ansible 1.9.2 or 1.8.4 on Ubuntu 14.04, this configuration:
- name: install riak
apt: deb=/data/riak/riak.deb update_cache=no
produces this conclusion:
TASK: [riak | install riak] ***************************************************
failed: [riak-server-1] => {"failed": true}
msg: unsupported parameter for module: deb
The same Ansible script works fine on Mac computers running Ansible 1.8.4 and 1.9.
The guest in all cases is created by Vagrant ubuntu / trusty64. All VM creation and configuration is done using Vagrant and Ansible, and we all work with the same Vagrant / Ansible files.
Edit:
>ansible-playbook --version
ansible-playbook 1.9.2
configured module search path = /usr/share/ansible
>ansible --version
ansible 1.9.2
configured module search path = /usr/share/ansible
>locate apt.py | xargs md5sum
0058a84d0685ad1b67895fdf2da95bc5 /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ansible-1.9.2-py2.7.egg/ansible/modules/core/packaging/os/apt.py
134ac4074dd7929826f5cf888b2ec3ad /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ansible-1.9.2-py2.7.egg/ansible/modules/core/packaging/os/apt.pyc
It is built from source:
>git status
On branch stable-1.9
Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/stable-1.9'.
Changes not staged for commit:
(use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed)
(use "git checkout -- <file>..." to discard changes in working directory)
(commit or discard the untracked or modified content in submodules)
modified: lib/ansible/module_utils/basic.py
modified: lib/ansible/modules/core (modified content)
modified: v2/ansible/modules/core (modified content)
>git diff lib/ansible/module_utils/basic.py
diff --git a/lib/ansible/module_utils/basic.py b/lib/ansible/module_utils/basic.py
index 91501b1..3430abe 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/module_utils/basic.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/module_utils/basic.py
@@ -911,7 +911,7 @@ class AnsibleModule(object):
if k not in self._legal_inputs:
- self.fail_json(msg="unsupported parameter for module: %s" % k)
+ self.fail_json(msg="unsupported parameter for module: %s. supported parameters are %s" % (k, self._legal_inputs))
def _count_terms(self, check):
count = 0
TASK: [riak | install riak] ***************************************************
failed: [riak-server-3] => {"failed": true}
msg: unsupported parameter for module: deb. supported parameters are ['CHECKMODE', 'NO_LOG', 'dpkg_options', 'upgrade', 'force', 'package', 'pkg', 'name', 'purge', 'state', 'update_cache', 'update-cache', 'default_release', 'default-release', 'install_recommends', 'install-recommends', 'cache_valid_time']
It really seems to me that it is building an old version of apt.py from somewhere. I ran sudo find / -name apt.py, and there are several instances in my house, but only one of them is under / usr.
Edit:
I deleted all instances of apt.py to:
>sudo find / -name apt.py* | xargs md5sum
134ac4074dd7929826f5cf888b2ec3ad /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ansible-1.9.2-py2.7.egg/ansible/modules/core/packaging/os/apt.pyc
0058a84d0685ad1b67895fdf2da95bc5 /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ansible-1.9.2-py2.7.egg/ansible/modules/core/packaging/os/apt.py