package – Generic OS package manager

• Synopsis
• Requirements
• Parameters
• Notes
• Examples
• Status

Synopsis

• Installs, upgrade and removes packages using the underlying OS package manager.
• For Windows targets, use the win_package module instead.

Requirements

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

• Whatever is required for the package plugins specific for each system.

Parameters

Notes

Examples

- name: install ntpdate
  package:
    name: ntpdate
    state: present

# This uses a variable as this changes per distribution.
- name: remove the apache package
  package:
    name: "{{ apache }}"
    state: absent

- name: install the latest version of Apache and MariaDB
  package:
    name:
      - httpd
      - mariadb-server
    state: latest

Status

• This module is guaranteed to have backward compatible interface changes going forward. [stableinterface]
• This module is maintained by the Ansible Core Team. [core]

Red Hat Support

More information about Red Hat’s support of this module is available from this Red Hat Knowledge Base article.

Authors

• Ansible Core Team