pipx install ansible - No binaries associated with this package.

First off, thanks again for making pipx!

Installing Ansible with pipx fails with “no binaries associated with this package”.

Ansible is packaged in a fairly unique manner, as can be seen in the setup.py file and examining the bin folder. The main binary is ansible and other functionality such as ansible-playbook is a symlink to ansible.

I wouldn’t expect this to be a quick fix but I did want to note this in an issue.

[pdecat]

For people coming here from Google like me, ansible 2.10+ now needs to be installed by pipx install ansible-base:

# pipx install ansible
Note: Dependent package 'ansible-base<2.11,>=2.10.1' contains 11 apps
  - ansible
  - ansible-config
  - ansible-connection
  - ansible-console
  - ansible-doc
  - ansible-galaxy
  - ansible-inventory
  - ansible-playbook
  - ansible-pull
  - ansible-test
  - ansible-vault

No apps associated with package ansible. Try again with '--include-deps' to include apps of dependent packages, which are listed above. If you are attempting to install a library, pipx should not be used. Consider using pip or a similar tool instead.

# pipx install ansible-base
  installed package ansible-base 2.10.2, Python 3.8.5
  These apps are now globally available
    - ansible
    - ansible-config
    - ansible-connection
    - ansible-console
    - ansible-doc
    - ansible-galaxy
    - ansible-inventory
    - ansible-playbook
    - ansible-pull
    - ansible-test
    - ansible-vault
done! ✨ 🌟 ✨

And if you need community modules and plugins which are now part of collections, you can then inject them:

# pipx inject ansible-base $module
  injected package $module into venv ansible-base
done! ✨ 🌟 ✨

Related: https://github.com/pipxproject/pipx/issues/504

Edit: fixed inject example

[alorence]

As an alternative, you can install ansible with option --include-deps to ensure binaries from dependent package (i.e. ansible-base) will be setup as globally available commands. This is a 1-line alternative to the solution provided by @pdecat

❯ pipx install --include-deps ansible
  installed package ansible 6.6.0, installed using Python 3.10.8
  These apps are now globally available
    - ansible
    - ansible-community
    - ansible-config
    - ansible-connection
    - ansible-console
    - ansible-doc
    - ansible-galaxy
    - ansible-inventory
    - ansible-playbook
    - ansible-pull
    - ansible-test
    - ansible-vault
done! ✨ 🌟 ✨

❯ ansible --version
ansible [core 2.13.6]
  config file = None
  configured module search path = ['/home/alorence/.ansible/plugins/modules', '/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules']
  ansible python module location = /home/alorence/.local/pipx/venvs/ansible/lib/python3.10/site-packages/ansible
  ansible collection location = /home/alorence/.ansible/collections:/usr/share/ansible/collections
  executable location = /home/alorence/.local/bin/ansible
  python version = 3.10.8 (main, Oct 13 2022, 21:13:48) [GCC 12.2.0]
  jinja version = 3.1.2
  libyaml = True