diff --git a/docsite/latest/rst/gettingstarted.rst b/docsite/latest/rst/gettingstarted.rst index a76f6ea687..ff46f376f8 100644 --- a/docsite/latest/rst/gettingstarted.rst +++ b/docsite/latest/rst/gettingstarted.rst @@ -23,6 +23,8 @@ If you are using RHEL or CentOS 5, Python is version 2.4 by default, but you can $ yum install python26 python26-PyYAML python26-paramiko python26-jinja2 + + On the managed nodes, you only need Python 2.4 or later, but if you are are running less than Python 2.6 on them, you will also need: @@ -36,6 +38,13 @@ also need: then allows you to use everything else. (That's jumping ahead though.) +.. note:: + + If you have SELinux enabled on remote nodes, you will also want to install + python-selinux on them before using any copy/file/template related functions in + Ansible. You can of course still use the yum module in Ansible to install this package on + remote systems that do not have it. + .. note:: Python 3 is a slightly different language than Python 2 and most python programs (including