[SOLVED] No Module name Yum in Ansible Error on vagrant

Issue

I was trying out some experiments with Ansible playbooks on Ubuntu Vagrant machine. I have written a simple playbook named exampleyum.yml as follows:

---
- hosts: local

  tasks:
    - name: Installing packages
      yum: name=httpd state=latest
      sudo: yes

When I run

ansible-playbook -i ~/inventory.ini exampleyum.yml

I am getting below error:

An exception occurred during task execution. To see the full traceback, use -vvv. The error was: ImportError: No module named yum fatal: [localhost]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "failed": true, "module_stderr": "Traceback (most recent call last):\n File \"/tmp/ansible_qeXrGO/ansible_module_yum.py\", line 25, in \n import yum\nImportError: No module named yum\n", "module_stdout": "", "msg": "MODULE FAILURE"}

It gives some import error and module failure. I read somewhere that Yum is a core module

and hence it should work properly, but it doesn't. Any help would be appreciated. I am pretty new to Ansible.

Solution

I am running Ansible on Ubuntu Vagrant machine.

So why do you use yum and not apt module first of all?

If you still need yum module for some reason, ensure that yum python package is installed on the managed host.

Answered By - Konstantin Suvorov

Answer Checked By - David Marino (WPSolving Volunteer)