Python-apt missing

[vdimitrv]

TASK [Install python2.7] ******************************************************* [WARNING]: Updating cache and auto-installing missing dependency: python-apt fatal: [127.0.0.1]: FAILED! => changed=false cmd: apt-get install --no-install-recommends python-apt -y -q msg: 'E: Package ''python-apt'' has no installation candidate' rc: 100 stderr: |- E: Package 'python-apt' has no installation candidate stderr_lines: stdout: |- Reading package lists... Building dependency tree... Reading state information... Package python-apt is not available, but is referred to by another package. This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only available from another source However the following packages replace it: python3-apt-dbg python3-apt python-apt-doc python-apt-common stdout_lines:

It keeps having this error while trying to run ansible-playbook playbook.yml commad. Please help

[razlupercio]

try using:

sudo ansible-playbook playbook.yml -e ansible_python_interpreter=/usr/bin/python3

I arrived to that after trying:

kali@kali:~/hotwax$ sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends python-apt -y -q
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
Package python-apt is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
However the following packages replace it:
  python3-apt-dbg python3-apt python-apt-doc python-apt-common

I'm using Kali 2020.2 and, perhaps, python3-apt is already installed by default. Hope this helps!