In case your tasks is to install some packages and it errors out as below - name: Install linux-headers apt: pkg={{item}} state=installed install_recommends=yes update_cache=yes with_items: - linux-headers-generic - dkms sudo: yes failed: [parallelsUbuntu] => (item=linux-headers-generic,dkms) => {"failed": true, "item": "linux-headers-generic,dkms"} stderr: E: There are problems and -y was used without --force-yes stdout: Reading package lists... Building dependency tree... Reading state information... The following extra packages will be installed: cpp fakeroot gcc libfakeroot linux-headers-3.13.0-63 linux-headers-3.13.0-63-generic patch Suggested packages: cpp-doc dpkg-dev debhelper gcc-multilib manpages-dev autoconf automake1.9 libtool flex bison gdb gcc-doc diffutils-doc The following NEW packages will be installed: cpp dkms fakeroot gcc libfakeroot linux-headers-3
