community.general.easy_install – Installs Python libraries

Note

This plugin is part of the community.general collection (version 2.5.1).

To install it use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.general.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.easy_install.

Synopsis

• Installs Python libraries, optionally in a virtualenv

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

• virtualenv

Parameters

Parameter	Choices/Defaults	Comments
executable string	Default: "easy_install"	The explicit executable or a pathname to the executable to be used to run easy_install for a specific version of Python installed in the system. For example easy_install-3.3, if there are both Python 2.7 and 3.3 installations in the system and you want to run easy_install for the Python 3.3 installation.
name string / required		A Python library name
state string	Choices: present ← latest	The desired state of the library. latest ensures that the latest version is installed.
virtualenv string		an optional virtualenv directory path to install into. If the virtualenv does not exist, it is created automatically
virtualenv_command string	Default: "virtualenv"	The command to create the virtual environment with. For example pyvenv, virtualenv, virtualenv2.
virtualenv_site_packages boolean	Choices: no ← yes	Whether the virtual environment will inherit packages from the global site-packages directory. Note that if this setting is changed on an already existing virtual environment it will not have any effect, the environment must be deleted and newly created.

Notes

Note

• Please note that the easy_install module can only install Python libraries. Thus this module is not able to remove libraries. It is generally recommended to use the ansible.builtin.pip module which you can first install using community.general.easy_install.

• Also note that virtualenv must be installed on the remote host if the virtualenv parameter is specified.

Examples

- name: Install or update pip
  community.general.easy_install:
    name: pip
    state: latest

- name: Install Bottle into the specified virtualenv
  community.general.easy_install:
    name: bottle
    virtualenv: /webapps/myapp/venv

Authors

• Matt Wright (@mattupstate)