Installing ovirt hosted engine, failing on "The ipaddr filter requires python's netaddr be installed on the ansible controller" but netaddr installed

Question

Trying to install an ovirt hosted engine and getting the following:

host01 idiot_user # hosted-engine --deploy --4
[ INFO  ] Stage: Initializing
[ INFO  ] Stage: Environment setup
          During customization use CTRL-D to abort.
          Continuing will configure this host for serving as hypervisor and will create a local VM with a running engine.
          The locally running engine will be used to configure a new storage domain and create a VM there.
          At the end the disk of the local VM will be moved to the shared storage.
          Are you sure you want to continue? (Yes, No)[Yes]:

<many INFO messages redacted>

[ INFO  ] skipping: [localhost]
[ INFO  ] TASK [ovirt.ovirt.hosted_engine_setup : Parse host address resolution]
[ ERROR ] fatal: [localhost]: FAILED! => {"msg": "The ipaddr filter requires python's netaddr be installed on the ansible controller"}
[ ERROR ] Failed to execute stage 'Closing up': Failed executing ansible-playbook
[ INFO  ] Stage: Clean up
[ INFO  ] Cleaning temporary resources
[ INFO  ] TASK [ovirt.ovirt.hosted_engine_setup : Execute just a specific set of steps]

<more redacted for space, no errors>

[ INFO  ] TASK [ovirt.ovirt.hosted_engine_setup : include_tasks]
[ INFO  ] ok: [localhost]
[ INFO  ] TASK [ovirt.ovirt.hosted_engine_setup : Remove local vm dir]
[ ERROR ] fatal: [localhost]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "msg": "argument 'path' is of type <class 'NoneType'> and we were unable to convert to path: 'None' is not a string and conversion is not allowed"}
[ ERROR ] Failed to execute stage 'Clean up': Failed executing ansible-playbook
[ INFO  ] Generating answer file '/var/lib/ovirt-hosted-engine-setup/answers/answers-20240224160431.conf'
[ INFO  ] Stage: Pre-termination
[ INFO  ] Stage: Termination
[ ERROR ] Hosted Engine deployment failed: please check the logs for the issue, fix accordingly or re-deploy from scratch.
          Log file is located at /var/log/ovirt-hosted-engine-setup/ovirt-hosted-engine-setup-20240224160108-nz5cgz.log

host01 idiot_user # netaddr
IPython (http://ipython.scipy.org/) not found!
host01 idiot_user #

yet netaddr is installed. It however, complains that IPython is not found. Yet ipython is installed.

I am in a twisty maze of python all alike.

Any help would be appreciated.

iii

tried figuring out how python looks for ipython to no avail.