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Ansible: resolving ‘could not initialize the preferred locale: unsupported locale setting’


Categories: DevOps

If you are getting the following error when invoking ‘ansible’, ‘ansible-playbook’, ‘ansible-galaxy’ or any of the Ansible related utilities: ERROR: Ansible could not initialize the preferred locale: unsupported locale setting This means Ansible cannot find a locale ending in “.UTF-8”.  Check the currently installed locales: $ locale -a Then export the LC_ALL variable to one … Ansible: resolving ‘could not initialize the preferred locale: unsupported locale setting’

Python: migrating pip modules to newer Python version on Ubuntu


Categories: Python

Migrating from one Python 3.x version to a newer 3.x minor version seems like it would just be a simple ‘apt install’ of the latest Python package.  But you most likely have pip modules installed at a version specific ‘dist-packages’ or ‘site-packages’ directory, and those modules have to be freshly installed into the newer version … Python: migrating pip modules to newer Python version on Ubuntu

Python: Using pip with a squid proxy


Categories: Development

In a production datacenter it would not be uncommon for internet access to be limited to domains whitelisted on a web proxy such as Squid.  If this is the case, and you are using pip to install packages, then you will need to: Have your Squid administrators whitelist pypi.python.org Add the “–proxy” switch when invoking … Python: Using pip with a squid proxy