ansible-lint command not found

Introduction

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

ansible-lint: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: ansible-lint: command not found

Solutions to ansible-lint: command not found

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

In Ubuntu ansible-lint is provided by ansible-lint package.

ansible-lint is:

Ansible playbooks express configuration, deployment and orchestration in YAML format. They can describe a policy you want your remote systems to enforce, or a set of steps in a general IT process.

ansible-lint checks Ansible playbooks for practices and behaviour that could potentially be improved.

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

sudo apt-get -y install ansible-lint

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

You can also use apt command to install ansible-lint.

sudo apt -y install ansible-lint

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

sudo aptitude install ansible-lint

Summary

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