How to install missing ansible collections on Linux?

How to install missing ansible collections on Linux?

In case any ansible collection needed is missing, then we can also manually install the required ansible collection using ansible-gallaxy command.

$ ansible-galaxy collection install 

suppose need to install general package, we can install it using below command,

$ ansible-galaxy collection install community.general

Started installing community general ansible collection,

Starting galaxy collection install process
Process install dependency map
Starting collection install process
Downloading https://galaxy.ansible.com/download/community-general-6.4.0.tar.gz to /home/ramyadevi/.ansible/tmp/ansible-local-25206gy2zphrl/tmp3mbaytu7/community-general-6.4.0-5ige1y3d
Installing 'community.general:6.4.0' to '/home/ramyadevi/.ansible/collections/ansible_collections/community/general'
community.general:6.4.0 was installed successfully

We can check using ansible-galaxy command to see whether the required collection is installed or not as part of the ansible-core package.

$ ansible-galaxy collection list

This command is used to check the installed collection list as part of ansible-core on Linux

# /usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/ansible_collections
Collection                    Version
----------------------------- -------
amazon.aws                    5.2.0  
ansible.netcommon             4.1.0  
ansible.posix                 1.5.1  
ansible.utils                 2.9.0  
ansible.windows               1.13.0 
arista.eos                    6.0.0  
awx.awx                       21.12.0
azure.azcollection            1.14.0 
check_point.mgmt              4.0.0  
chocolatey.chocolatey         1.4.0  
cisco.aci                     2.4.0  
cisco.asa                     4.0.0  
cisco.dnac                    6.6.3  
cisco.intersight              1.0.23 
cisco.ios                     4.3.1  
cisco.iosxr                   4.1.0  
cisco.ise                     2.5.12 
cisco.meraki                  2.15.1 
cisco.mso                     2.2.1  
cisco.nso                     1.0.3  
cisco.nxos                    4.1.0  
cisco.ucs                     1.8.0  
cloud.common                  2.1.2  
cloudscale_ch.cloud           2.2.4  
community.aws                 5.2.0  
community.azure               2.0.0  
community.ciscosmb            1.0.5  
community.crypto              2.11.0 
community.digitalocean        1.23.0 
community.dns                 2.5.1  
community.docker              3.4.2  
community.fortios             1.0.0  
community.general             6.4.0  
community.google              1.0.0  
community.grafana             1.5.4  
community.hashi_vault         4.1.0  
community.hrobot              1.7.0  
community.libvirt             1.2.0  
community.mongodb             1.5.1  
community.mysql               3.6.0  
community.network             5.0.0  
community.okd                 2.3.0  
community.postgresql          2.3.2  
community.proxysql            1.5.1  
community.rabbitmq            1.2.3  
community.routeros            2.7.0  
community.sap                 1.0.0  
community.sap_libs            1.4.0  
community.skydive             1.0.0  
community.sops                1.6.1  
community.vmware              3.4.0  
community.windows             1.12.0 
community.zabbix              1.9.2  
containers.podman             1.10.1 
cyberark.conjur               1.2.0  
cyberark.pas                  1.0.17 
dellemc.enterprise_sonic      2.0.0  
dellemc.openmanage            6.3.0  
dellemc.os10                  1.1.1  
dellemc.os6                   1.0.7  
dellemc.os9                   1.0.4  
dellemc.powerflex             1.5.0  
dellemc.unity                 1.5.0  
f5networks.f5_modules         1.22.1 
fortinet.fortimanager         2.1.7  
fortinet.fortios              2.2.2  
frr.frr                       2.0.0  
gluster.gluster               1.0.2  
google.cloud                  1.1.2  
grafana.grafana               1.1.1  
hetzner.hcloud                1.10.0 
hpe.nimble                    1.1.4  
ibm.qradar                    2.1.0  
ibm.spectrum_virtualize       1.11.0 
infinidat.infinibox           1.3.12 
infoblox.nios_modules         1.4.1  
inspur.ispim                  1.3.0  
inspur.sm                     2.3.0  
junipernetworks.junos         4.1.0  
kubernetes.core               2.4.0  
lowlydba.sqlserver            1.3.1  
mellanox.onyx                 1.0.0  
netapp.aws                    21.7.0 
netapp.azure                  21.10.0
netapp.cloudmanager           21.22.0
netapp.elementsw              21.7.0 
netapp.ontap                  22.3.0 
netapp.storagegrid            21.11.1
netapp.um_info                21.8.0 
netapp_eseries.santricity     1.4.0  
netbox.netbox                 3.11.0 
ngine_io.cloudstack           2.3.0  
ngine_io.exoscale             1.0.0  
ngine_io.vultr                1.1.3  
openstack.cloud               1.10.0 
openvswitch.openvswitch       2.1.0  
ovirt.ovirt                   2.4.1  
purestorage.flasharray        1.17.0 
purestorage.flashblade        1.10.0 
purestorage.fusion            1.3.0  
sensu.sensu_go                1.13.2 
splunk.es                     2.1.0  
t_systems_mms.icinga_director 1.32.0 
theforeman.foreman            3.9.0  
vmware.vmware_rest            2.2.0  
vultr.cloud                   1.7.0  
vyos.vyos                     4.0.0  
wti.remote                    1.0.4  

we can see ansible collection community.general is installed.

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