@ -232,6 +232,10 @@ The preferred way to install Ansible on a Mac is with ``pip``.
The instructions can be found in :ref:`from_pip`. If you are running macOS version 10.12 or older, then you should upgrade to the latest ``pip`` to connect to the Python Package Index securely. It should be noted that pip must be run as a module on macOS, and the linked ``pip`` instructions will show you how to do that.
..note::
If you have Ansible 2.9 or older installed, you need to use ``pip uninstall ansible`` first to remove older versions of Ansible before re-installing it.
If you are installing on macOS Mavericks (10.9), you may encounter some noise from your compiler. A workaround is to do the following::
If you have Ansible 2.9 or older installed, you need to use ``pip uninstall ansible`` first to remove older versions of Ansible before re-installing it.
Then install Ansible [1]_::
$ python -m pip install --user ansible
@ -324,12 +332,11 @@ If you wish to install Ansible globally, run the following commands::
Please make sure you have the latest version of ``pip`` before installing Ansible.
If you have an older version of ``pip`` installed, you can upgrade by following `pip's upgrade instructions <https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/installing/#upgrading-pip>`_ .
Upgrading Ansible from version 2.9 and lower to version 2.10 or later
Starting version 2.10, Ansible is made of two packages, and upgrading directly from previous minor version (`2.9.*
` and below) using ``pip`` is blocked to prevent leaving Ansible broken.
Trying to upgrade will display the following message, and no change will be performed:
Starting in version 2.10, Ansible is made of two packages. You need to first uninstall the old Ansible version (2.9 or earlier) before upgrading.
If you do not uninstall the older version of Ansible, you will see the following message, and no change will be performed:
..code-block:: console
@ -361,6 +368,10 @@ Installing the development version of Ansible
You should only run Ansible from ``devel`` if you are modifying the Ansible engine, or trying out features under development. This is a rapidly changing source of code and can become unstable at any point.
..note::
If you have Ansible 2.9 or older installed, you need to use ``pip uninstall ansible`` first to remove older versions of Ansible before re-installing it.
The development version of Ansible can be directly installed from GitHub with pip::
@ -376,6 +387,10 @@ See :ref:`from_source` for instructions on how to run Ansible directly from sour
Virtual Environments
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
..note::
If you have Ansible 2.9 or older installed, you need to use ``pip uninstall ansible`` first to remove older versions of Ansible before re-installing it.
Ansible can also be installed inside a new or existing ``virtualenv``::
$ python -m virtualenv ansible # Create a virtualenv if one does not already exist