Re: Installing Chef on Ubuntu 8.04

[AJ Christensen <aj@junglist.gen.nz>]

Hiya,

I certainly did have the same problem - CouchDB was first made  
available in Ubuntu Intrepid Ibis, and can be backported with the  
'prevu' tool.

Alternatively you could install from source, or use APT pinning to  
install directly from the intrepid repositories.

Regards,
AJ

On 19/01/2009, at 1:09 AM, Jørgen Orehøj Erichsen wrote:

> 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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