# Provisioning Error: Unable to locate package python-simplejson

**URL:** https://discourse.roots.io/t/provisioning-error-unable-to-locate-package-python-simplejson/13913
**Category:** trellis
**Tags:** ansible
**Created:** 2018-10-19T21:03:07Z
**Posts:** 2

## Post 1 by @broskees — 2018-10-19T21:03:08Z

Running into this issue on a trellis provision. Can’t seem to find anything on it?

Some background info: I’m off-boarding a client and they want all their stuff on GoDaddy, so I’m trying to move the site to a GoDaddy Ubuntu 16.04 VPS. I’m connecting with SSH via Ansible fine by changing the `admin_user`, but I’m getting this error now.

```
fatal: [XXX.XXX.XX.XXX]: FAILED! => {
    "changed": false,
    "rc": 100,
    "stdout": "/usr/bin/python\r\nE: Unable to locate package python-simplejson\r\n",
    "stdout_lines": [
        "/usr/bin/python",
        "E: Unable to locate package python-simplejson"
    ]
}
```

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## Post 2 by @broskees — 2018-10-19T21:34:07Z

I don’t think this was the proper was to get rid of the problem, but considering the circumstances I just SSH’d into the server and ran the following:

```
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install python-simplejson
```