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update docs to uninstall ansible-base on upgrade (#74024)

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@ -115,6 +115,10 @@ You may need to perform some additional configuration before you are able to run
Installing Ansible with ``pip``
-------------------------------
.. note::
If you have Ansible 2.9 or older installed or Ansible 3, see :ref:`pip_upgrade`.
Once ``pip`` is installed, you can install Ansible [1]_::
$ python -m pip install --user ansible
@ -145,7 +149,7 @@ Installing Ansible in a virtual environment with ``pip``
.. note::
If you have Ansible 2.9 or older installed, you need to use ``pip uninstall ansible`` first to remove older versions of Ansible before re-installing it.
If you have Ansible 2.9 or older installed or Ansible 3, see :ref:`pip_upgrade`.
Ansible can also be installed inside a new or existing ``virtualenv``::
@ -183,6 +187,28 @@ As explained by the message, to upgrade you must first remove the version of Ans
$ pip uninstall ansible
$ pip install ansible
Upgrading from Ansible 3 or ansible-core 2.10
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
``ansible-base`` only exists for version 2.10 and in Ansible 3. In 2.11 and later, the package is called ``ansible-core``. Before installing ``ansible-core`` or Ansible 4, you must uninstall ``ansible-base`` if you have installed Ansible 3 or ``ansible-base`` 2.10.
To upgrade to ``ansible-core``:
.. code-block:: bash
pip uninstall ansible-base
pip install ansible-core
To upgrade to Ansible 4:
.. code-block:: bash
pip uninstall ansible-base
pip install ansible
.. _installing_the_control_node:
.. _from_yum:
@ -335,7 +361,10 @@ The instructions can be found in :ref:`from_pip`. If you are running macOS versi
.. note::
To upgrade from Ansible 2.9 or older to Ansible 3 or later, you must ``pip uninstall ansible`` first to remove older versions of Ansible before re-installing it.
.. note::
If you have Ansible 2.9 or older installed or Ansible 3, see :ref:`pip_upgrade`.
.. note::
@ -433,7 +462,9 @@ You can install the ``devel`` branch of ``ansible-core`` directly from GitHub wi
.. note::
If you have Ansible 2.9 or older installed, you need to use ``pip uninstall ansible`` first to remove older versions of Ansible before re-installing it. See :ref:`pip_upgrade` for more details.
If you have Ansible 2.9 or older installed or Ansible 3, see :ref:`pip_upgrade`.
You can replace ``devel`` in the URL mentioned above, with any other branch or tag on GitHub to install older versions of Ansible (prior to ``ansible-base`` 2.10.), tagged alpha or beta versions, and release candidates. This installs all of Ansible.