diff --git a/ansible/playbooks/AdoptOpenJDK_Unix_Playbook/roles/nasm/tasks/main.yml b/ansible/playbooks/AdoptOpenJDK_Unix_Playbook/roles/nasm/tasks/main.yml
index efe59182d5..1a725ba2e8 100644
--- a/ansible/playbooks/AdoptOpenJDK_Unix_Playbook/roles/nasm/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/ansible/playbooks/AdoptOpenJDK_Unix_Playbook/roles/nasm/tasks/main.yml
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@
 - name: Download nasm sources
   shell: cd /tmp && wget https://www.nasm.us/pub/nasm/releasebuilds/{{ nasm_version }}/nasm-{{ nasm_version }}.tar.gz
   when:
-    - (nasm_installed.rc is defined) and ((nasm_installed.rc != 0 ) or (nasm_installed.rc == 0 and nasm.stdout is version_compare('{{ nasm_version }}', operator='ne')) )
+    - (nasm_installed.rc is defined) and ((nasm_installed.rc != 0 ) or (nasm_installed.rc == 0 and nasm.stdout is version_compare(nasm_version, operator='ne')) )
   tags: nasm
 
 - name: Extract nasm sources