Linux – SIOCSIFFLAGS: No Such File or Directory Error on CentOS5 WiFi

The output you show seems to imply that you exited the download and install without actually doing so. Try yum install -y python-setuptools to finish the install, then try the easy_install command.

First, locations are generally resolved from the location of the playbook.

Secondly, package isn't designed for installing a local file, but rather for fetching from the remote repositories.

Thirdly, the reason package behaves like so is because it doesn't really make sense for an OS-independent layer to be fed an OS-dependent file; by definition, an .rpm is only able to be installed on a system with rpm, and not one that instead uses apt, or pacman, or portage, or whatever.

You will want to use the yum module for installing the rpm on your rpm-based machines. If, as you say, you're supporting Ubuntu machines as well, you'll need to filter those out using a conditional and add a separate rule for installing an equivalent .deb on them.

However, if all you're trying to do is install Java, that should be available in the repos already, and you can avoid all this copying around of files.