How To Install ansible-tower-cli on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ansible-tower-cli on Debian 9.
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. It can also be used as a client library for other Python apps, or as a reference for others developing API interactions with Tower’s REST API.
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 9. 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 9
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 9, 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 9 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 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.