docker not installed into /usr/local/bin about ansible-docker HOT 4 CLOSED

The "real" Docker binary gets installed to /usr/bin/docker. It gets apt installed.

The symlink is only for Python packages. The Docker Compose Python package is the docker-compose binary. The Docker Python package isn't a callable binary, it's only a library -- more specifically a library that needs to exist for tools like Ansible to use any docker_* modules.

By the way the Docker Python package gets skipped because that task only runs for Python packages that have a path and src property defined. That is defined here only for docker-compose:

The docker Python package above that does not have those properties.

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hey @nickjj , thanks for the feedback. i'm deploying to an ubuntu server:

$ droppy:~# ls /usr/bin/docker
dockerd       docker-init   docker-proxy 

can you point me to the step that installs the binary? i'm finding that its just plain absent. i want to better understand why ansible thinks it can be skipped, when the binary is clearly missing

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I found the step. i can debug solo. thx!

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You wrote:

TASK [nickjj.docker : Symlink selected Python package binaries to /usr/local/bin] *************************************
skipping: [###.###.#.###] => (item={'name': 'docker', 'state': 'present'}) 

This task is unrelated to the Docker binary (check my previous comment for a breakdown).

This role will apt install Docker with the Install Docker and Docker Compose v2 task.

I'm not sure what your system's state is but you can sudo apt-get remove --purge docker* and then try running this role again. Then you should be able to run which docker to see it in /usr/bin.

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