ansible.builtin.yum – Manages packages with the yum package manager
Note
This module is part of ansible-core
and included in all Ansible
installations. In most cases, you can use the short
module name
yum
even without specifying the collections:
keyword.
However, we recommend you use the FQCN for easy linking to the
module documentation and to avoid conflicting with other collections that may have
the same module name.
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 ansible.builtin.dnf module.
Note
This module has a corresponding action plugin.
Parameters
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Specify if the named package and version is allowed to downgrade a maybe already installed higher version of that package. Note that setting allow_downgrade=True can make this module behave in a non-idempotent way. The task could end up with a set of packages that does not match the complete list of specified packages to install (because dependencies between the downgraded package and others can cause changes to the packages which were in the earlier transaction). Choices:
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If NOTE: This feature requires yum >= 3.4.3 (RHEL/CentOS 7+) Choices:
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If set to Choices:
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The remote yum configuration file to use for the transaction. |
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Disable the excludes defined in YUM config files. If set to If set to If set to |
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Whether to disable the GPG checking of signatures of packages being installed. Has an effect only if state is present or latest. Choices:
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Plugin name to disable for the install/update operation. The disabled plugins will not persist beyond the transaction. |
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Repoid of repositories to disable for the install/update operation. These repos will not persist beyond the transaction. When specifying multiple repos, separate them with a As of Ansible 2.7, this can alternatively be a list instead of |
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Specifies an alternate directory to store packages. Has an effect only if download_only is specified. |
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Only download the packages, do not install them. Choices:
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Plugin name to enable for the install/update operation. The enabled plugin will not persist beyond the transaction. |
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Repoid of repositories to enable for the install/update operation. These repos will not persist beyond the transaction. When specifying multiple repos, separate them with a As of Ansible 2.7, this can alternatively be a list instead of |
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Package name(s) to exclude when state=present, or latest |
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If repoquery is not available, install yum-utils. If the system is registered to RHN or an RHN Satellite, repoquery allows for querying all channels assigned to the system. It is also required to use the ‘list’ parameter. NOTE: This will run and be logged as a separate yum transation which takes place before any other installation or removal. NOTE: This will use the system’s default enabled repositories without regard for disablerepo/enablerepo given to the module. Choices:
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Will also install all packages linked by a weak dependency relation. NOTE: This feature requires yum >= 4 (RHEL/CentOS 8+) Choices:
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Specifies an alternative installroot, relative to which all packages will be installed. Default: “/” |
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Package name to run the equivalent of yum list This parameter is mutually exclusive with name. |
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Amount of time to wait for the yum lockfile to be freed. Default: 30 |
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A package name or package specifier with version, like Comparison operators for package version are valid here If a previous version is specified, the task also needs to turn When using state=latest, this can be You can also pass a url or a local path to a rpm file (using state=present). To operate on several packages this can accept a comma separated string of packages or (as of 2.0) a list of packages. |
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Specifies an alternative release from which all packages will be installed. |
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If set to Choices:
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Skip packages with broken dependencies(devsolve) and are causing problems. Choices:
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Whether to install (
Default is Choices:
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Force yum to check if cache is out of date and redownload if needed. Has an effect only if state is present or latest. Choices:
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When using latest, only update installed packages. Do not install packages. Has an effect only if state is latest Choices:
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This module supports By default, this module will select the backend based on the Choices:
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This only applies if using a https url as the source of the rpm. e.g. for localinstall. If set to This should only set to Prior to 2.1 the code worked as if this was set to Choices:
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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: Install Apache >= 2.4
yum:
name: httpd>=2.4
state: present
- name: Install a list of packages (suitable replacement for 2.11 loop deprecation warning)
yum:
name:
- nginx
- postgresql
- postgresql-server
state: present
- name: Install a list of packages with a list variable
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: Download the nginx package but do not install it
yum:
name:
- nginx
state: latest
download_only: true
Authors
Ansible Core Team
Seth Vidal (@skvidal)
Eduard Snesarev (@verm666)
Berend De Schouwer (@berenddeschouwer)
Abhijeet Kasurde (@Akasurde)
Adam Miller (@maxamillion)