zsh: command not found: ansible after pip installing

I've installed ansible on my Mac using pip as advised by ansible's documentation:

However when I try to run ansible I get the following: zsh: command not found: ansible

I've never had this problem when installing ansible before.

pip-installing again tells me it's already installed under site packages: Requirement already satisfied: ansible in ./Library/Python/3.8/lib/python/site-packages (2.9.11)

And my python installation in ~/.zshrc points to:

# Add user python 3.7 to path export PATH="/usr/local/opt/python/libexec/bin:$PATH" 

Might be obvious to some but I can't figure out why this simple installation isn't working..

6 Answers

After installing ansible with python3 -m pip install --user ansible, I searched for the ansible binary and found it to be downloaded into ~/Library/Python/3.8/bin. The simplest way is to figure this out is:

$ cd ~ $ find . | grep ansible <lines omitted> ./Library/Python/3.8/bin/ansible <lines omitted> 

From there, its pretty easy, just update your .bash_profile or .zshrc with

export PATH="/path/to/Library/Python/3.8/bin:$PATH" 

And you should be good to go:

$ source ~/.zshrc $ ansible --version ansible 2.10.8 config file = None configured module search path = ['/Users/dbove/.ansible/plugins/modules', '/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules'] 

brew install ansible
brew link ansible

Below commands worked for me:

Uninstall ansible

sudo pip uninstall ansible

Then install by using (Note: -H flag is important here which sets HOME variable to target user's home dir)

sudo -H pip3 install ansible

Check the version by using

ansible --version

Uninstall ansible sudo pip uninstall ansible.
Then install by using pip3 sudo pip3 install ansible.
Check the version by using ansible --version.

ansible 2.10.3

: Make sure you have pip3 installed, In case you don't have then install by using brew install python3 6

I had multiple ansible instances . I followed the steps below and rectified the ansible command not found error.

1. Uninstall old /all instances of ansible

python3 -m pip uninstall ansible python3 -m pip uninstall ansible-core 

2. Find all instances of ansible

cd ~ find . | grep ansible 

3. Remove all directories from step 2

rm -rf /usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ansible* rm -rf /root/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ansible rm -rf ./.ansible rm -rf ./.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ansible_test 

4. Install ansible once again

sudo yum install python3-pip pip3 install ansible pip3 install openshift 

5. Validate

pip3 list | grep ansible ansible (4.8.0) ansible-core (2.11.6) 

ansible --version [DEPRECATION WARNING]: Ansible will require Python 3.8 or newer on the controller starting with Ansible 2.12. Current version: 3.6.8 (default, Sep 12 2021, 04:40:35) [GCC 8.4.1 20200928 (Red Hat 8.4.1-1)]. This feature will be removed from ansible-core in version 2.12. Deprecation warnings can be disabled by setting deprecation_warnings=False in ansible.cfg. ansible [core 2.11.6] config file = None configured module search path = ['/root/.ansible/plugins/modules', '/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules'] ansible python module location = /usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ansible ansible collection location = /root/.ansible/collections:/usr/share/ansible/collections executable location = /usr/local/bin/ansible python version = 3.6.8 (default, Sep 12 2021, 04:40:35) [GCC 8.4.1 20200928 (Red Hat 8.4.1-1)] jinja version = 3.0.2 libyaml = True 

ansible

i was seeing same error, i was missing ansible-lint

brew install ansible brew install ansible-lint