yum – Manages packages with the yum package manager¶
Synopsis¶
Installs, upgrade, downgrades, removes, and lists packages and groups with the yum package manager.
This module only works on Python 2. If you require Python 3 support see the dnf module.
Parameters¶
Notes¶
Note
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.
In versions prior to 1.9.2 this module installed and removed each package given to the yum module separately. This caused problems when packages specified by filename or url had to be installed or removed together. In 1.9.2 this was fixed so that packages are installed in one yum transaction. However, if one of the packages adds a new yum repository that the other packages come from (such as epel-release) then that package needs to be installed in a separate task. This mimics yum’s command line behaviour.
Yum itself has two types of groups. “Package groups” are specified in the rpm itself while “environment groups” are specified in a separate file (usually by the distribution). Unfortunately, this division becomes apparent to ansible users because ansible needs to operate on the group of packages in a single transaction and yum requires groups to be specified in different ways when used in that way. Package groups are specified as “@development-tools” and environment groups are “@^gnome-desktop-environment”. Use the “yum group list hidden ids” command to see which category of group the group you want to install falls into.
The yum module does not support clearing yum cache in an idempotent way, so it was decided not to implement it, the only method is to use command and call the yum command directly, namely “command: yum clean all” https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/31450#issuecomment-352889579
Examples¶
- name: install the latest version of Apache
yum:
name: httpd
state: latest
- name: ensure a list of packages installed
yum:
name: "{{ packages }}"
vars:
packages:
- httpd
- httpd-tools
- name: remove the Apache package
yum:
name: httpd
state: absent
- name: install the latest version of Apache from the testing repo
yum:
name: httpd
enablerepo: testing
state: present
- name: install one specific version of Apache
yum:
name: httpd-2.2.29-1.4.amzn1
state: present
- name: upgrade all packages
yum:
name: '*'
state: latest
- name: upgrade all packages, excluding kernel & foo related packages
yum:
name: '*'
state: latest
exclude: kernel*,foo*
- name: install the nginx rpm from a remote repo
yum:
name: http://nginx.org/packages/centos/6/noarch/RPMS/nginx-release-centos-6-0.el6.ngx.noarch.rpm
state: present
- name: install nginx rpm from a local file
yum:
name: /usr/local/src/nginx-release-centos-6-0.el6.ngx.noarch.rpm
state: present
- name: install the 'Development tools' package group
yum:
name: "@Development tools"
state: present
- name: install the 'Gnome desktop' environment group
yum:
name: "@^gnome-desktop-environment"
state: present
- name: List ansible packages and register result to print with debug later.
yum:
list: ansible
register: result
- name: Install package with multiple repos enabled
yum:
name: sos
enablerepo: "epel,ol7_latest"
- name: Install package with multiple repos disabled
yum:
name: sos
disablerepo: "epel,ol7_latest"
- name: Install a list of packages
yum:
name:
- nginx
- postgresql
- postgresql-server
state: present
- name: Download the nginx package but do not install it
yum:
name:
- nginx
state: latest
download_only: true
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¶
Ansible Core Team
Seth Vidal (@skvidal)
Eduard Snesarev (@verm666)
Berend De Schouwer (@berenddeschouwer)
Abhijeet Kasurde (@Akasurde)
Adam Miller (@maxamillion)
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