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How to install latest pexpect for RHEL7 manually for use in Ansible
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How to install pexpect on RHEL7 for Ansible purposes
1. Download the sources for pexpect-4.4.0 and ptyprocess-0.5.2
here:
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pexpect
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/ptyprocess
2. Extract the tarballs
3. Goto dir for ptyprocess and type:
python setup.py install
4. Goto dir for pexpect and type:
python setup.py install
You may get this error:
/usr/lib64/python2.7/distutils/dist.py:267: UserWarning: Unknown distribution option: 'install_requires'
warnings.warn(msg)
running install
running build
running build_py
running install_lib
byte-compiling /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pexpect/_async.py to _async.pyc
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pexpect/_async.py", line 18
transport, pw = yield from asyncio.get_event_loop()\
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
running install_egg_info
Removing /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pexpect-4.4.0-py2.7.egg-info
Writing /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pexpect-4.4.0-py2.7.egg-info
This error relates to Python3 and can be ignored.
5. Start python and import pexpect. You should just get prompt back.
OR use
python -c "import pexpect"
echo $?
will return 0 without any errors.
NOTE:
The above is for root. If you want to use for local user then append the above python install commands with --user
and install the packages as the user and not root.
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