Ansible fails with /bin/sh: 1: /usr/bin/python: not found

Question

I\'m running into an error I\'ve never seen before. Here is the command and the error:

$ ansible-playbook create_api.yml

PLAY [straw] **********************         


        

Answer 1

What I used to get this working on ubuntu 15.10 on a fresh Digital Ocean droplet:

# my-playbook.yml
- name: python2
  hosts: test
  gather_facts: no
  pre_tasks:
    - raw: sudo apt-get -y install python-simplejson

$ ansible-playbook path/to/my-playbook.yml

For ubuntu 16.04 on a fresh OVH SSD, I had to apt-get upgrade before the python2 packages were available.