From 1fd863cf5d9d909768ae97244201add5a2a61378 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael DeHaan Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 16:06:58 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Update docs to reference release tarball directory on new site. --- docsite/latest/rst/gettingstarted.rst | 19 ++++++++++++------- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/docsite/latest/rst/gettingstarted.rst b/docsite/latest/rst/gettingstarted.rst index 0661e2dc60..70ee4a56a4 100644 --- a/docsite/latest/rst/gettingstarted.rst +++ b/docsite/latest/rst/gettingstarted.rst @@ -10,10 +10,10 @@ Requirements Requirements for Ansible are extremely minimal. -Ansible is written for Python 2.6+. If you are running Python 2.5 on an "Enterprise Linux" variant, we'll show you how to add -2.6. Newer versions of Linux and OS X should already have 2.6 or higher. +On the central Ansible machine, you will need Python 2.6+. If you are running Python 2.5 on an "Enterprise Linux" variant, we'll show you how to add +2.6 to your distribution. -In additon to Python 2.6+, you will want the following Python modules (installed via pip or perhaps via your OS package manager via slightly different names): +You will also want the following Python modules (installed via pip or perhaps via your OS package manager via slightly different names): * ``paramiko`` * ``PyYAML`` @@ -25,7 +25,6 @@ If you are using RHEL or CentOS 5 , python is version 2.4 by default, but you ca $ yum install python26 python26-PyYAML python26-paramiko python26-jinja2 - On the managed nodes, you only need Python 2.4 or later, but if you are are running less than Python 2.6 on them, you will also need: @@ -60,8 +59,8 @@ back to the project. Instructions for installing from source are below. -Ansible's release cycles are about one month long. Due to this -short release cycle, any bugs will generally be fixed in the next release versus maintaining +Ansible's release cycles are usually about two months long. Due to this +short release cycle, minor bugs will generally be fixed in the next release versus maintaining backports on the stable branch. You may also wish to follow the `Github project `_ if @@ -109,13 +108,19 @@ using "make install". This is done through `python-distutils`: $ cd ./ansible $ sudo make install +Release Tarballs +++++++++++++++++ + +For those that do not want to use git or a package manager, (or for packagers themselves), +tarballs of past Ansible releases are available at `http://ansibleworks.com/releases/ `_. + Via Pip +++++++ Are you a python developer? Ansible can be installed via Pip, but when you do so, it will ask to install other dependencies used for -optional modes:: +things like 'fireball' mode that you might not need:: $ sudo easy_install pip $ sudo pip install ansible