Unable to uninstall package using deb module in Ansible

Question

Today I'm experiencing a problem using ansible and trying to uninstall a debian package. The package does not come from a repository but instead a .deb file directly, so, in Ansible I've defined the installation task:

- name: install nomachine
  apt:
    deb: /root/{{ nomachine_package }}

Which actually works, the package gets installed in the S.O.

But, when it's time to remove it:

- name: uninstall nomachine
  apt:
    deb: nomachine-enterprise-terminal-server
    state: absent

The horror:

fatal: [SERVER]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "failed": true, "msg": "deb only supports state=present"}

I'm not a developer but take a look on apt.py and it seems that the uninstall process is only available for packages installed via repository? (it seems to validate against cache of apt).

So, as workaround for this uninstall process I'm doing:

- name: uninstall nomachine
  shell: dpkg -r nomachine-enterprise-terminal-server

I'm using ansible 2.3.0.0

Maybe I'm not using the tool properly or the functionality is not available.

Thanks for any help you can provide on this.

H.

EDIT: I think I'm doing it ok because following the example of ansible:

- name: Remove "foo" package
  apt:
    name: foo
    state: absent

And for those who are wondering why "- name" isn't defined it's because the task is a handler.

Answer 1

I'm a silly boy. after taking a look on the documentation as suggested in my recently "newbug" on github the syntax varies for uninstalling packages, small difference in usage for the same module (and In the question I already answered myself):

# WRONG
- name: uninstall nomachine
  apt:
    deb: nomachine-enterprise-terminal-server
    state: absent

# RIGHT
- name: Remove "foo" package
  apt:
    name: foo
    state: absent

deb --> name !! Just for uninstalling... for installing packages it is still "deb".

Facepalm today, experience tomorrow.