How To Install ansible-lint on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ansible-lint
on Debian 11.
What is ansible-lint
ansible-lint is:
Ansible playbooks express configuration, deployment and orchestration in YAML format. They can describe a policy you want your remote systems to enforce, or a set of steps in a general IT process.
ansible-lint checks Ansible playbooks for practices and behaviour that could potentially be improved.
There are three methods to install ansible-lint
on Debian 11. 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-lint 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-lint
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install ansible-lint
Install ansible-lint Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install ansible-lint
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install ansible-lint
Install ansible-lint 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-lint
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install ansible-lint
How To Uninstall ansible-lint on Debian 11
To uninstall only the ansible-lint
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove ansible-lint
Uninstall ansible-lint And Its Dependencies
To uninstall ansible-lint
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove ansible-lint
Remove ansible-lint Configurations and Data
To remove ansible-lint
configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge ansible-lint
Remove ansible-lint configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove ansible-lint
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ansible-lint
Dependencies
ansible-lint have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ansible-lint
package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.