Problem: .deb package should depend on ansible
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Issue
When installing the .deb package from the releases page (and probable .rpm too), you get semaphore to working, you can add all kinds of stuff and setup your complete tasks, but when it comes to running tasks, you always end up with a weird, task terminal, stopping before running a task:
This is all, nelow is darkness.
I needed hours to find out what is missing. What helped, was stopping the semaphore service, and running the server "manually":
semaphore server --config=/etc/semaphore.conf.jsonThen you get some output, and:
...
INFO[0018] Task 14 added to queue
INFO[0020] Set resource locker with TaskRunner 14
INFO[0020] Task 14 removed from queue
INFO[0023] Stopped running TaskRunner 14
INFO[0023] Release resource locker with TaskRunner 14
panic: exec: "ansible-playbook": executable file not found in $PATH
So: yes, you have to install ansible to make ansible work. 🤣
It's obvious, but not self-explanatory when installing. The install docs don't say anything about that, and I simply forgot about it.
An easy fix would be: depend the .deb on ansible.
Impact
Other
Installation method
Package
Database
Postgres
Browser
Firefox
Semaphore Version
2.9.113
Ansible Version
2.10.8 - not applicableLogs & errors
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Manual installation - system information
Linux semaphore 5.15.149-1-pve #1 SMP PVE 5.15.149-1 (2024-03-29T14:24Z) x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Configuration
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Additional information
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Ansible is intentionally NOT part of the requirements because there are mutliple ways to install it. If Ansible have been installed via pip3 it won't be detected by the deb dependency. And beside the os version of Ansible there are also PPAs and third-party repositories to install Ansible.
Ok, understood, that's true. You may think I'm a noobie - but it would really help in the setup docs to at least mention the installation of ansible ;-)
It absolutely makes sense to mention the installation of Ansible by itself within the docs. Maybe you want to contribute a bit at https://github.com/semaphoreui/semaphore-docs? :)
I just saw that there already is a hint at installation.md:
Python, Ansible and Git should be installed on your system.
🤦♂️
Those who can read have a great advantage. ;-)