Ansible on minimalistic Debian
Let's assume we have really minimalist Debian distribution, something like on Raspberry Pi. And we want to use Ansible on that box. The official Ansible documentation do not cover in details installing it on really minimalist distro and using the official documentation would mess up Python libraries, as it suggest to use pip to install libraries that are already packaged as *.dpk (you know Debian packages all in "debian way"...). So the correct sequence is as follow: apt-get update apt-get upgrade apt-get install aptitude aptitude install apt-utils (Necessary to correctly handle Python *.dpk with Python libraries) aptitude install python-httplib2 aptitude install python-jinja2 aptitude install python-yaml aptitude install python-paramiko aptitude install git aptitude install sshpass At this point we shall have all dependencies necessary to run Ansible installed. The official Ansible docs recommend the pip install paramiko PyYAML jinja2 httplib2 what will...