On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 11:36 AM, Stephen John Smoogen <[email protected]> wrote: > On 27 March 2017 at 11:17, Greg DeKoenigsberg <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 11:04 AM, Mona Gopal <[email protected]> wrote: >>> I am trying to install ansible on AIX 7.1 machine >> >> You need to be more specific. >> >> Ansible is a program that manages other systems via SSH. >> >> Are you (1) using an AIX system to run Ansible *from*, or (2) do you >> want to use Ansible to manage AIX hosts? >> >> If the answer is (2), then you don't need to install Ansible itself on >> the AIX hosts. You need to install Ansible on the system that will >> connect to those hosts, and the target hosts only need Python and SSH. >> >> And if the answer is (1), you're trying to install Ansible on an AIX >> system itself... why? > > Parsing together the data from the previous messages, the work shop > Mona is managing is an AIX only shop with 7.1 and 6.x systems. The > management host will then be an AIX system versus the usual Linux > system.
OK, then getting python and pip installed is the key. Maybe using AIX Tools: http://www.aixtools.net/index.php/python But, strictly speaking, this is not an Ansible issue, it's a Python issue. Get Python and Pip installed, and then once you can get "pip install" working, then you should pip install ansible and its various dependencies. --g > -- > Stephen J Smoogen. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ansible Project" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/CANnLRdhEwB-2-fSb2cSh3D-kS-84Hp29CKpfcWVFgHxZ_uWtNg%40mail.gmail.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Greg DeKoenigsberg Ansible Community Guy -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/CAM1FbhH3oCZ7nrs6BFtm5fts%2BvhnQ6ptS1Daqaq3oRSwcaOjeA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
