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by mtlynch 1858 days ago
>Due to a limitation in pip, if you are upgrading from Ansible 3 (or earlier), you need to uninstall Ansible and Ansible Base before installing Ansible 4:

Does anyone know what they're talking about? This is a pain to deal with in my app, and I've never seen it with any other pip package.
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geerlingguy 1858 days ago
Unfortunately due to some things that happened with the way they renamed packages after the split (from ansible to ansible-core and ansible-base), it required a full 'uninstall and reinstall' operation, otherwise Pip gets things a bit confused and the installation breaks completely.

There was a Herculean effort to try to get it to just upgrade cleanly, but in the end it turned out there was no way.

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mtlynch 1858 days ago
Ah, gotcha. Thanks for the clarification, Jeff!
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