ansible and ansible-lint in the PPA are probably incompatible

[stl-victor-sudakov]

Summary

I have the following PPA "https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/ansible/ansible/ubuntu noble main" configured on an Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS system, and both ansible and ansible-lint are installed from this PPA.

After a recent "apt upgrade", when I try running ansible-lint, I get the following traceback:

$ ansible-lint
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/ansible-lint", line 5, in <module>
    from ansiblelint.__main__ import _run_cli_entrypoint
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/ansiblelint/__main__.py", line 39, in <module>
    from ansiblelint import cli
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/ansiblelint/cli.py", line 29, in <module>
    from ansiblelint.yaml_utils import clean_json
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/ansiblelint/yaml_utils.py", line 31, in <module>
    from ansiblelint.utils import Task
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/ansiblelint/utils.py", line 41, in <module>
    from ansible.parsing.yaml.constructor import AnsibleConstructor, AnsibleMapping
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'ansible.parsing.yaml.constructor'

Issue Type

• Bug Report

OS / ENVIRONMENT

$ ansible-lint --version
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/ansible-lint", line 5, in <module>
    from ansiblelint.__main__ import _run_cli_entrypoint
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/ansiblelint/__main__.py", line 39, in <module>
    from ansiblelint import cli
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/ansiblelint/cli.py", line 29, in <module>
    from ansiblelint.yaml_utils import clean_json
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/ansiblelint/yaml_utils.py", line 31, in <module>
    from ansiblelint.utils import Task
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/ansiblelint/utils.py", line 41, in <module>
    from ansible.parsing.yaml.constructor import AnsibleConstructor, AnsibleMapping
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'ansible.parsing.yaml.constructor'

But

$ apt list --installed | grep ansible-lint
ansible-lint/noble,now 6.17.2-1 all [installed]

• ansible installation method: OS package from PPA
• ansible-lint installation method: OS package from PPA
• OS: Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS

STEPS TO REPRODUCE

1. Install ansible and ansible-lint from the PPA
2. Run ansible-lint with any parameter, the traceback will be the same as above.

Desired Behavior

Should kinda work.

I don't really want to switch to the pip/pipx installation of ansible-lint because in this case it does not see the ansible collections installed by ansible, so by working around one problem, I get another.

If you do not maintain the PPA, please kindly redirect me to the official PPA or to the above PPA maintainers.

[WhaleJ84]

I'm facing the same experience on Ubuntu 24.04:

$ ansible-lint --version
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/ansible-lint", line 5, in <module>
    from ansiblelint.__main__ import _run_cli_entrypoint
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/ansiblelint/__main__.py", line 39, in <module>
    from ansiblelint import cli
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/ansiblelint/cli.py", line 29, in <module>
    from ansiblelint.yaml_utils import clean_json
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/ansiblelint/yaml_utils.py", line 31, in <module>
    from ansiblelint.utils import Task
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/ansiblelint/utils.py", line 41, in <module>
    from ansible.parsing.yaml.constructor import AnsibleConstructor, AnsibleMapping
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'ansible.parsing.yaml.constructor'

$ apt list --installed | grep ansible
ansible-core/noble,noble,now 2.19.4-1ppa~noble all [installed,automatic]
ansible-lint/noble,noble,now 6.17.2-1 all [installed]
ansible/noble,noble,now 12.2.0-1ppa~noble all [installed]
python3-ansible-compat/noble,noble,now 4.1.11-1 all [installed,automatic]

[alisonlhart]

We do not maintain the PPA or have information on who the maintainers are. This could be a good question to direct to the Ansible Forum at https://forum.ansible.com/.

[stl-victor-sudakov]

https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-lint-in-the-ansible-ppa-is-broken/44859 for those who may come here looking for a solution.