ansible_role_ranger

Ansible role to install the ranger file manager on linux. ranger is a console file manager with VI key bindings. More info about ranger is available at github.com/ranger/ranger.

What does this role do?

• This role try to install ranger with the default package manager.
• If this fails, this role will download the ranger git and compile it by ourself (with python 3).
• We also could perform a simple versioncheck that will check if a newer version of this role has been executed on this host before.
  • You can enable it by setting submodules_versioncheck to true

How to use this role

You can either use this role via ansible galaxy or use it directly from this git repository.

ansible galaxy

install role:

ansible-galaxy install do1jlr.ranger

You can execute the role directly via ansible ad-hoc command, but it is highly recomended to create a ansible playbook

# example ad-hoc command
ansible -m include_role -a "name=do1jlr.ranger" localhost

Example Ansible-Playbook:

---
- hosts: localhost
  roles:
  - do1jlr.ranger

use via git command

clone github repo:

git clone https://github.com/roles-ansible/ansible_role_ranger.git

example Playbook:

---
- hosts: localhost
  roles:
    - ansible_role_ranger
  tags:
   - ranger
  vars:
    submodules_versioncheck: true

Requirements

The community.general collection is required for some parts of this ansible role. You can install it with this command:

ansible-galaxy collection install -r requirements.yml --upgrade

variables

# perform simple versionscheck (true is recomended)
submodules_versioncheck: false

# parameter for ranger installation
ranger:
  repo: 'https://github.com/ranger/ranger.git'
  branch: 'master'
  download_directory: "{{ x_ansible_download_dir | default(ansible_env.HOME + '/.ansible/tmp/downloads/ranger') }}"