How to install older package of ansible?

Question

I need to install ansible 2.1.0.0-1.el7. My setup does not work with the newest version of ansible which I installed with:

yum -y --enablerepo=epel install ansible

This gave me ansible-2.2.0.0-3.el7.noarch. So I tried to list the older versions but I could not find them:

# yum -y --enablerepo=epel --showduplicates list ansible
Failed to set locale, defaulting to C
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
 * base: mirror2.hs-esslingen.de
 * epel: epel.mirrors.ovh.net
 * extras: it.centos.contactlab.it
 * updates: mirror.netcologne.de
Available Packages
ansible.noarch                    2.2.0.0-3.el7                                epel

This is a site where I found multiple versions but I don't know how to install it.

Can someone help me to install the Ansible version I need?

Answer 1

You should install it with python pip.

sudo yum install python-pip python-devel python

And then:

sudo pip install pip --upgrade
sudo pip install ansible==2.1.0.0

And now you should be able to use:

ansible-playbook ...

If you don't manage to install pip with the command I gave you, have a look here: https://packaging.python.org/install_requirements_linux/