Setting up ansible from scratch, with all versions in the stack controlled, in a Rocky 9.3 VM

install-ansible.sh

# throughout, the versions of dnf packages are not at all controlled :(

# install asdf
dnf install curl-minimal git
git clone https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf.git ~/.asdf --branch v0.14.0
. "$HOME/.asdf/asdf.sh"
. "$HOME/.asdf/completions/asdf.bash"

# install asdf-python
asdf plugin-add python
git -C ~/.asdf/plugins/python checkout 7b0af87

# install python
dnf install make gcc patch zlib-devel bzip2 bzip2-devel readline-devel sqlite sqlite-devel openssl-devel tk-devel libffi-devel xz-devel libuuid-devel gdbm-libs libnsl2
asdf install python 3.12.4
echo python 3.12.4 >.tool-versions

# install ansible
python -m venv ansible.venv
ansible.venv/bin/pip install ansible==10.2.0