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How to install content collections in ansible

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ansible-galaxy collection install community.general -p /etc/ansible/collection

Starting galaxy collection install process
Process install dependency map
Starting collection install process
Downloading https://galaxy.ansible.com/api/v3/plugin/ansible/content/published/collections/artifacts/community-general-7.5.0.tar.gz to /root/.ansible/tmp/ansible-local-32029rn14n3e4/tmpqcc43sof/community-general-7.5.0-tg0ru1lf
Installing 'community.general:7.5.0' to '/etc/ansible/collection/ansible_collections/community/general'
community.general:7.5.0 was installed successfully


ansible-galaxy collection list

# /home/ansible_ctrl/.ansible/collections/ansible_collections
Collection         Version
------------------ -------
community.general  7.4.0

Adding collections_paths to ansible.cfg

# vim ansible.cfg and add the following
collections_path = home/ansible_ctrl/.ansible/collections/ansible_collections:/etc/ansible/collection