Unable to install plugin enable-foreman-proxy-plugin-ansible

[Cassius_Clay]

Problem:
Unable to install enable-foreman-proxy-plugin-ansible with foreman-installer.
Expected outcome:
Successfully installs and enable this plugin.
Foreman and Proxy versions:
foreman-3.0.0-0.1.rc2.el8.noarch
foreman-proxy-3.0.0-0.1.rc2.el8.noarch
Distribution and version:
AlmaLinux 8.4
Other relevant data:
Do I need to have the EPEL repository enable to pull Ansible during this installation?

2021-09-21 16:28:36 [DEBUG ] [configure] Packagerubygem-smart_proxy_ansible: Ensuring => present
2021-09-21 16:28:36 [DEBUG ] [configure] Executing: ‘/bin/dnf -d 0 -e 1 -y install rubygem-smart_proxy_ansible’
2021-09-21 16:28:38 [ERROR ] [configure] Execution of ‘/bin/dnf -d 0 -e 1 -y install rubygem-smart_proxy_ansible’ returned 1: Error:
2021-09-21 16:28:38 [ERROR ] [configure] - nothing provides ansible >= 2.2 needed by rubygem-smart_proxy_ansible-3.2.1-2.fm2_6.el8.noarch
2021-09-21 16:28:38 [ERROR ] [configure] /Stage[main]/Foreman_proxy::Plugin::Ansible/Foreman_proxy::Plugin::Module[ansible]/Foreman_proxy::Plugin[ansible]/Package[rubygem-smart_proxy_ansible]/ensure: change from ‘purged’ to ‘present’ failed: Execution of ‘/bin/dnf -d 0 -e 1 -y install rubygem-smart_proxy_ansible’ returned 1: Error:
2021-09-21 16:28:38 [ERROR ] [configure] - nothing provides ansible >= 2.2 needed by rubygem-smart_proxy_ansible-3.2.1-2.fm2_6.el8.noarch

[illumino]

I had a similar issue some time ago, the answer I received was:

Problem with Foreman 2.1rc2 with Remote Execution on CentOS 8

When checking repoclosure in packaging we’re using the repository at http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=8&arch=x86_64&repo=configmanagement-ansible-29. When you install centos-release-ansible-29 on EL8 it will set things up for you to be able to pull ansible from there. This should probably be mentioned in the docs and maybe the installer should be able to deal with it?

At the time (early CentOS 8 support development), EPEL was not supported on CentOS 8 systems.

I hope this is helpful,
Peter

[Cassius_Clay]

Yes @illumino very helpful. I had found the same thing in the documentation after I posted this. I did not include that repo as part of the initial build since I already run Ansible from an AWX environment so I thought it might not be necessary. I’m going to add that repositories today and give it another try. Thanks for the reply.