I would like to use Ansible to copy an .exe file from the server and install it on another computer. I wrote this script, but copying is done quite quickly, but the installation step has been dragging on for over an hour and won’t finish, nothing is moving at all. Does anyone know what this could be about? I immediately insert the code I wanted to use.Hello everyone. I would like to use Ansible to copy an .exe file from the server and install it on another computer. I wrote this script, but copying is done quite quickly, but the installation step has been dragging on for over an hour and won’t finish, nothing is moving at all. Does anyone know what this could be about? I immediately insert the code I wanted to use.

---
- hosts: win
  tasks:
    - name: copying from server to disk
      ansible.windows.win_copy:
        src: \10.0.129.234xxxInstallSumatraPDF-3.5.2-64-install.exe
        dest: C:inst
        remote_src: yes
        force: True
      become: True
      become_method: runas
      vars:
        ansible_become_user: user
        ansible_become_pass: password
    

    - name: Install file
      ansible.windows.win_package:
        path: C:instSumatraPDF-3.5.2-64-install.exe
        arguments: /install /passive /norestart
      vars:
        ansible_become_method: runas
        ansible_become_user: user
        ansible_become_pass: password

The last thing that is displayed after starting the playbook.

3:11:03 PMUsing module file /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/ansible_collections/ansible/windows/plugins/modules/win_package.ps

13:11:03 PMPipelining is enabled.

3:11:03 PMESTABLISH WINRM CONNECTION FOR USER:user on PORT 5986 TO client

3:11:04 PMEXEC (via pipeline wrapper)

It hasn’t wanted to move for an hour anyway. I will also add that instead of executing these scripts on a Linux server, I execute them using the Semaphore UI web overlay.

I tried to find the product id but I can’t find it in the .exe installers. I ended up implementing chocolatey because most of the programs I need are in this repository, but not all