apt – Manages apt-packages¶
Requirements¶
The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.
python-apt (python 2)
python3-apt (python 3)
aptitude (before 2.4)
Parameters¶
Notes¶
Note
Three of the upgrade modes (
full,safeand its aliasyes) requiredaptitudeup to 2.3, since 2.4apt-getis used as a fall-back.In most cases, packages installed with apt will start newly installed services by default. Most distributions have mechanisms to avoid this. For example when installing Postgresql-9.5 in Debian 9, creating an excutable shell script (/usr/sbin/policy-rc.d) that throws a return code of 101 will stop Postgresql 9.5 starting up after install. Remove the file or remove its execute permission afterwards.
The apt-get commandline supports implicit regex matches here but we do not because it can let typos through easier (If you typo
fooasfoapt-get would install packages that have “fo” in their name with a warning and a prompt for the user. Since we don’t have warnings and prompts before installing we disallow this.Use an explicit fnmatch pattern if you want wildcarding)When used with a loop: each package will be processed individually, it is much more efficient to pass the list directly to the name option.
Examples¶
- name: Install apache httpd (state=present is optional)
apt:
name: apache2
state: present
- name: Update repositories cache and install "foo" package
apt:
name: foo
update_cache: yes
- name: Remove "foo" package
apt:
name: foo
state: absent
- name: Install the package "foo"
apt:
name: foo
- name: Install a list of packages
apt:
pkg:
- foo
- foo-tools
- name: Install the version '1.00' of package "foo"
apt:
name: foo=1.00
- name: Update the repository cache and update package "nginx" to latest version using default release squeeze-backport
apt:
name: nginx
state: latest
default_release: squeeze-backports
update_cache: yes
- name: Install latest version of "openjdk-6-jdk" ignoring "install-recommends"
apt:
name: openjdk-6-jdk
state: latest
install_recommends: no
- name: Upgrade all packages to the latest version
apt:
name: "*"
state: latest
- name: Update all packages to the latest version
apt:
upgrade: dist
- name: Run the equivalent of "apt-get update" as a separate step
apt:
update_cache: yes
- name: Only run "update_cache=yes" if the last one is more than 3600 seconds ago
apt:
update_cache: yes
cache_valid_time: 3600
- name: Pass options to dpkg on run
apt:
upgrade: dist
update_cache: yes
dpkg_options: 'force-confold,force-confdef'
- name: Install a .deb package
apt:
deb: /tmp/mypackage.deb
- name: Install the build dependencies for package "foo"
apt:
pkg: foo
state: build-dep
- name: Install a .deb package from the internet.
apt:
deb: https://example.com/python-ppq_0.1-1_all.deb
- name: Remove useless packages from the cache
apt:
autoclean: yes
- name: Remove dependencies that are no longer required
apt:
autoremove: yes
Return Values¶
Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:
Status¶
This module is guaranteed to have backward compatible interface changes going forward. [stableinterface]
This module is maintained by the Ansible Core Team. [core]
Red Hat Support¶
More information about Red Hat’s support of this module is available from this Red Hat Knowledge Base article.
Authors¶
Matthew Williams (@mgwilliams)
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