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+---
+# enodebd tasks/Debian.yml
+#
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: © 2020 Open Networking Foundation <support@opennetworking.org>
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+
+- name: Install enodebd Prereqs
+  apt:
+    name:
+      - "python3"
+      - "python3-pip"
+    state: "present"
+    update_cache: true
+    cache_valid_time: 3600
+
+- name: Create systemd service unit files for enodebd services
+  template:
+    src: "{{ item }}.j2"
+    dest: "/etc/systemd/system/{{ item }}"
+    owner: "root"
+    group: "root"
+    mode: "0644"
+  with_items:
+    - "enodebd.service"