ansible-runner command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

ansible-runner: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: ansible-runner: command not found

Solutions to ansible-runner: command not found

How To Fix ansible-runner: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu ansible-runner is provided by python3-ansible-runner package.

python3-ansible-runner is:

Ansible Runner is a tool and python library that helps when interfacing with Ansible directly or as part of another system whether that be through a container image interface, as a standalone tool, or as a Python module that can be imported.

This package contains the Python 3.x module.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install python3-ansible-runner

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install python3-ansible-runner.

sudo apt -y install python3-ansible-runner

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install python3-ansible-runner

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix ansible-runner command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.