Not able to install pyVmomi on salt-master because of 'six' dependency

Products

• VMware Aria Suite

Issue/Introduction

When trying to install pyVmomi on the salt master it fails to install because the dependency 'six' is not installed. 

Environment

Aria Automation Config 8.x

Salt-master 3006.x

Cause

When installing python modules if you use the command 'pip' to install the module it will use they system provided 'pip' and so the module will get installed in /usr 

 

Resolution

To ensure that python modules get installed in the correct place for the salt-master and Aria Automation Config have access to them it is necessary to install them using the following command ( in this case we are installing pyVmomi:

salt-call pip.install pyVmomi upgrade=True