Unable to install ansible due to python dependency on Ubuntu 18.04

Question

I am trying to install ansible on my Ubuntu 18.04 which throws python depends error. I understand the version installed by default on the machine is 3.x +. The depends requests version of python to be 2.x i. e. 2.7 as per the below log results, Kindly suggest me a better option to install ansible or to downgrade the python version.

pawan@ubuntu:~/Devops$ sudo apt install -f ansible
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 ansible : Depends: python-jinja2 but it is not going to be installed
           Depends: python-yaml but it is not going to be installed
           Depends: python-paramiko but it is not going to be installed
           Depends: python-httplib2 but it is not going to be installed
           Depends: python-six but it is not going to be installed
           Depends: python-crypto (>= 2.6) but it is not going to be installed
           Depends: python-setuptools but it is not going to be installed
           Depends: python-cryptography but it is not going to be installed
           Depends: python:any (< 2.8)
           Depends: python:any (>= 2.7.5-5~)
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

Answer 1

I have the same problem and simply resolved it with pip installation.

pip install --user ansible