Installing Chef on Ubuntu 8.04

[Jørgen Orehøj Erichsen <joe@erichsen.net>]

Hi,

Just tried to install Chef on a Ubuntu 8.04 LTS server by following
the instructions on http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Installation

Unfortunately, it fails with the following error:

ERROR: package[couchdb] (/tmp/chef-solo/cookbooks/chef/recipes/ 
server.rb line 46) had an error:
No version specified, and no candidate version available!
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.5.1/lib/chef/provider/package.rb: 
44:in `action_install'/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.5.1/lib/chef/ 
runner.rb:87:in `send'/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.5.1/lib/chef/ 
runner.rb:87:in `converge'/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.5.1/lib/ 
chef/runner.rb:85:in `each'/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.5.1/lib/ 
chef/runner.rb:85:in `converge'/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.5.1/ 
lib/chef/resource_collection.rb:58:in `each'/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/ 
gems/chef-0.5.1/lib/chef/resource_collection.rb:57:in `each'/usr/lib/ 
ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.5.1/lib/chef/runner.rb:63:in `converge'/usr/ 
lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.5.1/lib/chef/client.rb:342:in `converge'/ 
usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.5.1/lib/chef/client.rb:96:in  
`run_solo'/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.5.1/bin/chef-solo:98/usr/ 
bin/chef-solo:19:in `load'/usr/bin/chef-solo:19
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.5.1/lib/chef/provider/package.rb: 
44:in `action_install': No version specified, and no candidate version  
available! (Chef::Exception::Package)

And a
  aptitude search couchdb
returns nothing which confirms that there is in fact no couchdb  
package for 8.04.

Has anybody else had the same problem?

/Jørgen

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