Building Ansible

Building Ansible

Below versions of Ansible are available in respective distributions at the time of creation of these build instructions:

• RHEL 8.10 has 9.2.0
• RHEL (9.6, 9.7) have 7.7.0
• SLES 16 has 11.3.0
• Ubuntu 22.04 has 10.7.0
• Ubuntu (24.04, 25.10) have 13.3.0

The instructions provided below specify the steps to build Ansible version 13.7.0 on Linux on IBM Z for the following distributions:

• RHEL (8.10, 9.6, 9.7, 10.0, 10.1)
• SLES (15 SP7, 16)
• Ubuntu (22.04, 24.04, 25.10)

General Notes:

• When following the steps below please use a standard permission user unless otherwise specified.

• A directory /<source_root>/ will be referred to in these instructions, this is a temporary writable directory anywhere you'd like to place it.

Note: Ansible(v13.7.0) was verified at the time of creation of these instructions

1. Install dependencies

export SOURCE_ROOT=/<source_root>/

• RHEL (8.10, 9.6, 9.7, 10.0, 10.1)

  sudo yum install -y python3.12-devel python3.12-pip gcc openssl-devel wget

• SLES 15 SP7

  sudo zypper install -y gcc openssl-devel wget

• SLES 16

  sudo zypper install -y gcc openssl-devel wget python313-devel python313-pip

• Ubuntu 22.04

  sudo apt update
  sudo apt install -y wget python3-pip

• Ubuntu (24.04, 25.10)

  sudo apt-get update
  sudo apt install -y curl wget python3 python3-pip pipx pkg-config openssl libssl-dev gcc build-essential libc6-dev python3-dev

• Install Python version 3.x on Ubuntu 22.04 and SLES 15 SP7

  • Instructions for building Python 3.x can be found here

• Install Rust on Ubuntu (24.x and 25.x)

  cd $SOURCE_ROOT
  curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh /dev/stdin -y
  export PATH="$HOME/.cargo/bin:$PATH"

2. Install Ansible

   pip3 install ansible==13.7.0                       # For all distros except RHEL distros and Ubuntu (24.x and 25.x)
   python3.12 -m pip install ansible==13.7.0          # For RHEL distros
   python3.12 -m pip install "cryptography<47" && \
   python3.12 -m pip install ansible==13.7.0          # For RHEL 8.x
   pipx install --include-deps ansible==13.7.0        # For Ubuntu (24.x and 25.x)
   pipx ensurepath                                    # For Ubuntu (24.x and 25.x)
   export PATH=$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH

Note: In case of an error sudo: pip3: command not found on RHEL or SLES, run above command as sudo -H env PATH=$PATH pip3 install ... instead of sudo pip3 install ....

3. Verification (Optional)

Follow the official guide given here to verify the installation.

References:

• https://github.com/ansible/ansible
• https://pypi.org/project/ansible/