diff --git a/scripts/ansible b/scripts/ansible
index 91f74eeb7..6f2d474ad 100755
--- a/scripts/ansible
+++ b/scripts/ansible
@@ -12,8 +12,8 @@ echo -e 'Ensure you'"'"'re online before running this (/opt/iiab/iiab/scripts/an
 echo -e 'ALTERNATIVES: Run scripts/ansible-2.5.x-deprecated or scripts/ansible-2.6.x\n\n'
 
 
-GOOD_VER="2.6.1"      # Ansible version for OLPC XO laptops (pip install).
-                      # On other OS's we install/upgrade to THE latest (released version of) Ansible.
+GOOD_VER="2.6.2"    # Ansible version for OLPC XO laptops (pip install).
+                    # On other OS's we attempt to install/upgrade THE latest from PPA, which might provide an even more recent version of Ansible.
 CURR_VER="undefined"
 # below are unused for future use
 # URL="NA"
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ if [ ! `command -v ansible-playbook` ]; then   # "command -v" is POSIX compliant
         yum -y install ca-certificates nss epel-release
         yum -y install git bzip2 file findutils gzip hg svn sudo tar which unzip xz zip libselinux-python
         yum -y install python-pip python-setuptools python-wheel patch
-        yum -y install https://releases.ansible.com/ansible/rpm/release/epel-7-x86_64/ansible-2.5.5-1.el7.ans.noarch.rpm
+        yum -y install https://releases.ansible.com/ansible/rpm/release/epel-7-x86_64/ansible-2.6.2-1.el7.ans.noarch.rpm
 #    elif [ -f /etc/fedora-release ]; then
 #        CURR_VER=`grep VERSION_ID /etc/*elease | cut -d= -f2`
 #        URL=https://github.com/jvonau/iiab/blob/ansible/vars/fedora-$CURR_VER.yml
diff --git a/scripts/ansible-2.6.x b/scripts/ansible-2.6.x
index b051ff203..5a035f722 100755
--- a/scripts/ansible-2.6.x
+++ b/scripts/ansible-2.6.x
@@ -12,8 +12,8 @@ echo -e 'Ensure you'"'"'re online before running this (/opt/iiab/iiab/scripts/an
 echo -e 'ALTERNATIVES: Run scripts/ansible-2.5.x-deprecated "slow food", or scripts/ansible for the latest.\n\n'
 
 
-GOOD_VER="2.6.1"      # Ansible version for OLPC XO laptops (pip install).
-                      # On other OS's we attempt to install/upgrade/pin to the latest Ansible 2.6.x
+GOOD_VER="2.6.2"    # Ansible version for OLPC XO laptops (pip install).
+                    # On other OS's we attempt to install/upgrade/pin to the latest 2.6.x from PPA, which might provide an even more recent version of Ansible.
 CURR_VER="undefined"
 # below are unused for future use
 # URL="NA"
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ if [ ! `command -v ansible-playbook` ]; then   # "command -v" is POSIX compliant
         yum -y install ca-certificates nss epel-release
         yum -y install git bzip2 file findutils gzip hg svn sudo tar which unzip xz zip libselinux-python
         yum -y install python-pip python-setuptools python-wheel patch
-        yum -y install https://releases.ansible.com/ansible/rpm/release/epel-7-x86_64/ansible-2.5.5-1.el7.ans.noarch.rpm
+        yum -y install https://releases.ansible.com/ansible/rpm/release/epel-7-x86_64/ansible-2.6.2-1.el7.ans.noarch.rpm
 #    elif [ -f /etc/fedora-release ]; then
 #        CURR_VER=`grep VERSION_ID /etc/*elease | cut -d= -f2`
 #        URL=https://github.com/jvonau/iiab/blob/ansible/vars/fedora-$CURR_VER.yml