1. Create virtual envirnment python3 -m venv ~/venvs/ansible-core-2.16.14 source ~/venvs/ansible-core-2.16.14/bin/activate pip install --upgrade pip setuptools wheel Make sure virtual environment has no ansible-core if it has uninstall. pip uninstall ansible-core 2. Download rpm mkdir /tmp/unpack_rpm;cd /tmp/unpack_rpm curl -O https://download.eng.rdu2.redhat.com/rhel-10/nightly/RHEL-10/latest-RHEL-10/compose/AppStream/x86_64/os/Packages/ansible-core-2.16.14-1.el10.noarch.rpm 3. Unpack rpm contents rpm2cpio ~/ansible-core-2.16.14-1.el10.noarch.rpm | cpio -idmv 4. cp all contents to virtual env site=$(python -c "import sysconfig; print(sysconfig.get_paths()['purelib'])") cp -r ./usr/lib/python3.*/site-packages/* "$site"/ # install runtime python deps that rpm pip install jinja2>=3.0 resolvelib<1.1 packaging PyYAML cryptography (ansible-core-2.16.14) [cloud-user@ocp-psi-executor-xl sap_july3]$ pip uninstall -y ansible-core Found existing installation: ansible-core 2.16.14 error: uninstall-no-record-file × Cannot uninstall ansible-core 2.16.14 ╰─> The package's contents are unknown: no RECORD file was found for ansible-core. hint: The package was installed by rpm. You should check if it can uninstall the package. (ansible-core-2.16.14) [cloud-user@ocp-psi-executor-xl sap_july3]$ pip list ansible-core Package Version ------------ ------- ansible-core 2.16.14 cffi 2.0.0 cryptography 46.0.2 Jinja2 3.1.6 MarkupSafe 3.0.3 packaging 25.0 pip 25.2 pycparser 2.23 PyYAML 6.0.3 resolvelib 1.0.1 setuptools 80.9.0 wheel 0.45.1 (ansible-core-2.16.14) [cloud-user@ocp-psi-executor-xl sap_july3]$ pip uninstall ansible-core Found existing installation: ansible-core 2.16.14 error: uninstall-no-record-file × Cannot uninstall ansible-core 2.16.14 ╰─> The package's contents are unknown: no RECORD file was found for ansible-core. hint: The package was installed by rpm. You should check if it can uninstall the package. (ansible-core-2.16.14) [cloud-user@ocp-psi-executor-xl sap_july3]$ ---> This means it is installed from rpm and not pip (ansible-core-2.16.14) [cloud-user@ocp-psi-executor-xl sap_july3]$ ansible-galaxy collection list 2>/dev/null # /home/cloud-user/.ansible/collections/ansible_collections Collection Version ---------------------------- ------- community.backup_working * community.kubernetes 2.0.1 community.sap_infrastructure 1.1.3 fedora.linux_system_roles 1.85.0 kubernetes.core 5.2.0 kubevirt.core 1.4.0 # /usr/share/ansible/collections/ansible_collections Collection Version ---------------------------- ------- redhat.rhel_system_roles 1.108.6 redhat.sap_infrastructure 1.1.3 redhat.sap_install 1.7.1 (ansible-core-2.16.14) [cloud-user@ocp-psi-executor-xl sap_july3]$ pip list Package Version ------------ ------- ansible-core 2.16.14 cffi 2.0.0 cryptography 46.0.2 Jinja2 3.1.6 MarkupSafe 3.0.3 packaging 25.0 pip 25.2 pycparser 2.23 PyYAML 6.0.3 resolvelib 1.0.1 setuptools 80.9.0 wheel 0.45.1