How to Install Ansible on Ubuntu

The procedure for installing Ansible on Ubuntu versions 18.04, 20.04, and 22.04 LTS is as follows

 

 

First, remove the default version supplied by the official Ubuntu repository:

 

sudo apt remove ansible
sudo apt –purge autoremove

 

Next, update the Ubuntu repository and apply all current patches:

 

sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade

 

Then install the software-properties-common package on Ubuntu and enable PPA support for the ansible repository:

 

sudo apt -y install software-properties-common
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ansible/ansible

 

Next install the latest version of Ansible for Ubuntu:

 

sudo apt install ansible

 

 

Finally, set up Ansible bash completion support:

sudo apt install python3-argcomplete
sudo activate-global-python-argcomplete3

 

 

You should now be able to run ansible-playbook and other ansible commands.