Ansible role: source-python

An Ansible role to download and install Python from source. Supported distributions are the currently maintained releases of the Red Hat family and derivatives, and Ubuntu LTS. At this time tests are run on Rocky Linux 9, CentOS Stream 10, CentOS Stream 9, Fedora 42, Fedora 41, Fedora 40, Ubuntu 24.04 and Ubuntu 22.04.

Requirements

None.

Role Variables

The variables that control the role behaviour are listed below with their respective defaults:

python_install_dir: /opt

The base directory of the installation

python_release: 3.13.0

The version of Python to be installed, in x.y.z form.

python_user: python

The owner of the installation.

python_group: python

The installation group.

python_src_dir: /sw/python

The directory where the source archive is downloaded, extracted and built.

python_force: false

When true installation is performed even if a bug fix release of the same minor version was already installed. Useful to repeat installations after something went wrong or to perform upgrades. Note that setting python_force to true breaks the role's idempotence.

Dependencies

None.

Example Playbook

- hosts: servers
  roles:
     - role: nmusatti.source_python
       vars:
         python_release: 3.13.0

Note the underscore in the name.

License

GPLv3

Author Information

Nicola Musatti - https://github.com/nmusatti