Problem scenario
You are using the file module in Ansible. But you get the error 'Error while linking: [Errno 2] No such file or directory ... "state": "absent"'.
What should you do?
Solution
Some people get this problem with different versions of Ansible 2.x. It is documented on this external page.
Rewrite your Ansible playbook so it uses a "shell" module and some "ln -s" command. Here is an example of the shell command:ln -s /existing/directory/ /new/directory/via/softlink
# Where /existing/directory/ is the path of an existing directory and "/new/directory/via/softlink" is the symbolic link you