yum - Manages packages with the yum package manager

• Synopsis
  • Requirements
• Parameters
• Notes
• Examples
• Status
  • Support
  • Author

Synopsis

• Installs, upgrade, downgrades, removes, and lists packages and groups with the yum package manager.
• This module only works on Python 2. If you require Python 3 support see the dnf module.

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

• yum

Parameters

Notes

Examples

- name: install the latest version of Apache
  yum:
    name: httpd
    state: latest

- name: remove the Apache package
  yum:
    name: httpd
    state: absent

- name: install the latest version of Apache from the testing repo
  yum:
    name: httpd
    enablerepo: testing
    state: present

- name: install one specific version of Apache
  yum:
    name: httpd-2.2.29-1.4.amzn1
    state: present

- name: upgrade all packages
  yum:
    name: '*'
    state: latest

- name: upgrade all packages, excluding kernel & foo related packages
  yum:
    name: '*'
    state: latest
    exclude: kernel*,foo*

- name: install the nginx rpm from a remote repo
  yum:
    name: http://nginx.org/packages/centos/6/noarch/RPMS/nginx-release-centos-6-0.el6.ngx.noarch.rpm
    state: present

- name: install nginx rpm from a local file
  yum:
    name: /usr/local/src/nginx-release-centos-6-0.el6.ngx.noarch.rpm
    state: present

- name: install the 'Development tools' package group
  yum:
    name: "@Development tools"
    state: present

- name: install the 'Gnome desktop' environment group
  yum:
    name: "@^gnome-desktop-environment"
    state: present

- name: List ansible packages and register result to print with debug later.
  yum:
    list: ansible
  register: result

- name: Install package with multiple repos enabled
  yum:
    name: sos
    enablerepo: "epel,ol7_latest"

- name: Install package with multiple repos disabled
  yum:
    name: sos
    disablerepo: "epel,ol7_latest"

Status

This module is flagged as stableinterface which means that the maintainers for this module guarantee that no backward incompatible interface changes will be made.

Support

For more information about Red Hat’s support of this module, please refer to this Knowledge Base article

Author

• Ansible Core Team
• Seth Vidal
• Eduard Snesarev (@verm666)
• Berend De Schouwer (@berenddeschouwer)
• Abhijeet Kasurde (@Akasurde)