Ansible apt-get install output

Reproducing the stdout of apt

Here is how to reproduce the stdout of apt…

---
- name: 'apt: update & upgrade'
  apt:
    update_cache: yes
    cache_valid_time: 3600
    upgrade: safe
  register: apt
- debug: msg={{ apt.stdout.split('\n')[:-1] }}

…with nice line breaks, thanks to .split('\n'), and omitting the last empty string with [:-1], all of which is Python string manipulation, of course.

"msg": [
    "Reading package lists...", 
    "Building dependency tree...", 
    "Reading state information...", 
    "Reading extended state information...", 
    "Initializing package states...", 
    "Building tag database...", 
    "No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.", 
    "0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.", 
    "Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used.", 
    "Reading package lists...", 
    "Building dependency tree...", 
    "Reading state information...", 
    "Reading extended state information...", 
    "Initializing package states...", 
    "Building tag database..."
]

You can register to a variable the output of the apt module execution and then print it.

- hosts: localhost
  sudo: true
  tasks:
    - name: get vi
      apt: state=latest name=vim
      register: aptout

    # show the content of aptout var
    - debug: var=aptout