How To Install ansible-tower-cli on Debian 10

Learn how to install ansible-tower-cli on Debian 10 with this tutorial. ansible-tower-cli is command line tool for Ansible Tower and AWX Project

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ansible-tower-cli on Debian 10.

What is ansible-tower-cli

ansible-tower-cli is:

tower-cli is a command line tool for Ansible Tower. It allows Tower commands to be easily run from the Unix command line.

This command line tool sends commands to the Tower API. It is capable of retrieving, creating, modifying, and deleting most objects within Tower.

A few potential uses include:

  • Launching playbook runs
  • Checking on job statuses
  • Rapidly creating objects like organizations, users, teams and more

There are three methods to install ansible-tower-cli on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install ansible-tower-cli Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install ansible-tower-cli using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install ansible-tower-cli

Install ansible-tower-cli Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install ansible-tower-cli using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install ansible-tower-cli

Install ansible-tower-cli Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install ansible-tower-cli using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install ansible-tower-cli

How To Uninstall ansible-tower-cli on Debian 10

To uninstall only the ansible-tower-cli package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove ansible-tower-cli

Uninstall ansible-tower-cli And Its Dependencies

To uninstall ansible-tower-cli and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove ansible-tower-cli

Remove ansible-tower-cli Configurations and Data

To remove ansible-tower-cli configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge ansible-tower-cli

Remove ansible-tower-cli configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove ansible-tower-cli configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ansible-tower-cli

Dependencies

ansible-tower-cli have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install ansible-tower-cli package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.