ERROR - None of the provided paths was usable Please specify a valid path with --roles-path

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Hi Guys,

I have created one role in Ansible. But when I am trying to see the role name, it is showing me the below error.

$ ansible-galaxy list
[WARNING]: - the configured path /root/web does not exist.
usage: ansible-galaxy [-h] [--version] [-v] TYPE ...
Perform various Role and Collection related operations.
positional arguments:
  TYPE
    collection   Manage an Ansible Galaxy collection.
    role         Manage an Ansible Galaxy role.
optional arguments:
  --version      show program's version number, config file location,
                 configured module search path, module location, executable
                 location and exit
  -h, --help     show this help message and exit
  -v, --verbose  verbose mode (-vvv for more, -vvvv to enable connection
                 debugging)
ERROR! - None of the provided paths was usable. Please specify a valid path with --roles-path
Aug 20, 2020 in Ansible by akhtar
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Hi@akhtar,

You are trying to list down ansible roles in your playbook. But you did not set the path for the role. So set the path in your ansible.cfg file as shown below.

$ vim /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg
[defaults]
inventory = /etc/myhosts.txt
host_key_checking = False
roles_path= /etc/myroles
answered Aug 20, 2020 by MD
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