Building Ansible

Building Ansible

Below versions of Ansible are available in respective distributions at the time of creation of these build instructions:

• RHEL (8.8, 8.10) have 9.2.0
• RHEL (9.2, 9.4) have 7.7.0
• SLES 15 SP5 has 2.9.27
• SLES 15 SP6 has 9.4.0
• Ubuntu 20.04 has 2.9.6
• Ubuntu 22.04 has 2.10.8
• Ubuntu (24.04, 24.10) have 9.2.0

The instructions provided below specify the steps to build Ansible latest version on Linux on IBM Z for the following distributions:

• RHEL (8.8, 8.10, 9.2, 9.4)
• SLES (15 SP5, 15 SP6)
• Ubuntu (20.04, 22.04, 24.04, 24.10)

General Notes:

• When following the steps below please use a standard permission user unless otherwise specified.

• A directory /<source_root>/ will be referred to in these instructions, this is a temporary writable directory anywhere you'd like to place it.

Note: Ansible(v10.5.0) was verified at the time of creation of these instructions

1. Install dependencies

• RHEL (8.8, 8.10, 9.2, 9.4)

   sudo yum install -y python3.12-devel python3.12-pip gcc openssl-devel wget

• SLES 15 SP5

  sudo zypper install -y gcc libffi-devel make openssl-devel wget glibc-locale
  export LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
  export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8

• SLES 15 SP6

  sudo zypper install -y python312-devel python312-pip gcc openssl-devel wget

• Ubuntu (20.04, 22.04)

  sudo apt update
  sudo apt install -y wget

• Ubuntu (24.04, 24.10)

  sudo apt-get update
  sudo apt install -y curl wget python3 python3-pip pipx pkg-config openssl libssl-dev

• Install Python version 3.12.x (Ubuntu 20.04, 22.04 and SLES 15 SP5)

  • Instructions for building Python 3.12.x can be found here

• Install Rust on Ubuntu 24.x

  cd $SOURCE_ROOT
  curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh /dev/stdin -y
  export PATH="$HOME/.cargo/bin:$PATH"

2. Install Ansible

pip3 install cryptography==3.3.2 				# For all distros except RHEL distros and Ubuntu 24.x
python3.12 -m pip install cryptography==3.3.2 			# For RHEL distros

pip3 install ansible==10.5.0 					# For all distros except RHEL distros 
python3.12 -m pip install ansible==10.5.0 --use-pep517 		# For RHEL distros
pipx install --include-deps ansible==10.5.0			# For Ubuntu 24.x
pipx ensurepath							# For Ubuntu 24.x
source ~/.bashrc 						# For Ubuntu 24.x

Note: In case of an error sudo: pip3: command not found on RHEL or SLES, run above command as sudo -H env PATH=$PATH pip3 install ... instead of sudo pip3 install ....

3. Verification (Optional)

Follow the official guide given here to verify the installation.

References

• https://github.com/ansible/ansible
• https://pypi.org/project/ansible/