Ansible - install python3-apt package

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Using Ubuntu 18.04, Ansible 2.9, Python 3.6.9, have installed python3-apt

On a basic ansible command ansible -b all -m apt -a "name=apache2 state=latest" Get Error:

FAILED! => {
    "ansible_facts": {
        "discovered_interpreter_python": "/usr/bin/python"
    },
    "changed": false,
    "msg": "Could not import python modules: apt, apt_pkg. Please install python3-apt package."
}

$ sudo apt-get install python3-apt

$ ansible --version
ansible 2.9.12  
python version = 3.6.9

$ python --version
Python 3.7.6
ansible ubuntu-18.04 python-3.x
3 Answers

Go to python3 dist-package directory

cd /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages

And then link these two files

sudo ln -s apt_inst.cpython-35m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so apt_inst.so
sudo ln -s apt_pkg.cpython-35m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so apt_pkg.so
user_73952900

I had the same problem when I had two versions of python3 installed - python3.7 and python3.9. After uninstalling the older version the problem went away.

user_6457550

/usr/bin/python on the remote node is probably python 2.x version rather than python3. As pointed by @Chuck above, changing the interpreter to python3 should do the trick.

user_71922380
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