community.general.installp – Manage packages on AIX

Note

This plugin is part of the community.general collection (version 3.8.1).

You might already have this collection installed if you are using the ansible package. It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.

To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.general.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.installp.

Synopsis
Parameters
Notes
Examples

Synopsis

Manage packages using ‘installp’ on AIX

Parameters

Parameter	Choices/Defaults	Comments
accept_license boolean	Choices: no ← yes	Whether to accept the license for the package(s).
name list / elements=string / required		One or more packages to install or remove. Use `all` to install all packages available on informed `repository_path`. aliases: pkg
repository_path path		Path with AIX packages (required to install).
state string	Choices: absent present ←	Whether the package needs to be present on or absent from the system.

Notes

Note

If the package is already installed, even the package/fileset is new, the module will not install it.

Examples

- name: Install package foo
  community.general.installp:
    name: foo
    repository_path: /repository/AIX71/installp/base
    accept_license: yes
    state: present

- name: Install bos.sysmgt that includes bos.sysmgt.nim.master, bos.sysmgt.nim.spot
  community.general.installp:
    name: bos.sysmgt
    repository_path: /repository/AIX71/installp/base
    accept_license: yes
    state: present

- name: Install bos.sysmgt.nim.master only
  community.general.installp:
    name: bos.sysmgt.nim.master
    repository_path: /repository/AIX71/installp/base
    accept_license: yes
    state: present

- name: Install bos.sysmgt.nim.master and bos.sysmgt.nim.spot
  community.general.installp:
    name: bos.sysmgt.nim.master, bos.sysmgt.nim.spot
    repository_path: /repository/AIX71/installp/base
    accept_license: yes
    state: present

- name: Remove packages bos.sysmgt.nim.master
  community.general.installp:
    name: bos.sysmgt.nim.master
    state: absent

Authors

Kairo Araujo (@kairoaraujo)

© 2012–2018 Michael DeHaan
© 2018–2021 Red Hat, Inc.
Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/community/general/installp_module.html