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How to install the vmware_rest collection
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Requirements
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The collection depends on:

- Ansible >=2.9.10 or greater
- Python 3.6 or greater

aiohttp
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aiohttp_ is the only dependency of the collection. You can install it with ``pip`` if you use a virtualenv to run Ansible.

.. code-block:: shell

    $ pip install aiohttp

Or using an RPM.

.. code-block:: shell

    $ sudo dnf install python3-aiohttp

.. _aiohttp: https://docs.aiohttp.org/en/stable/

Installation
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The best option to install the collection is to use the ``ansible-galaxy`` command:

.. code-block:: shell


    $ ansible-galaxy collection install vmware.vmware_rest
