[chef] Re: Ubuntu hardy chef installation problem

[Cameron Johnston < >]

On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 8:15 AM,  
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 wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> Sorry if this is an obvious one, I'm new to chef.
> Basically installed server & clients successfully on Ubuntu 10.4 machines 
> and
> been able to run recipes.
> BUT, have a few older machines on 8.04LTS Ubuntu, and I can't get the chef
> client installed on them.
> Have added opscode repository, and when I do:
> sudo aptitude install chef
>
> I get:
>
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> Reading extended state information
> Initializing package states... Done
> Building tag database... Done
> The following packages are BROKEN:
>  libchef-ruby1.8
> The following NEW packages will be automatically installed:
>  libabstract-ruby1.8 libbunny-ruby1.8 liberubis-ruby1.8 libextlib-ruby1.8
>  libgems-ruby1.8 libhighline-ruby1.8 libjson-ruby1.8 libmime-types-ruby
>  libmixlib-authentication-ruby1.8 libmixlib-cli-ruby1.8
>  libmixlib-config-ruby1.8 libmixlib-log-ruby1.8 libmoneta-ruby1.8
>  libohai-ruby libohai-ruby1.8 librestclient-ruby1.8 libsystemu-ruby1.8
>  ohai ruby rubygems ucf
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>  chef libabstract-ruby1.8 libbunny-ruby1.8 liberubis-ruby1.8
>  libextlib-ruby1.8 libgems-ruby1.8 libhighline-ruby1.8 libjson-ruby1.8
>  libmime-types-ruby libmixlib-authentication-ruby1.8 libmixlib-cli-ruby1.8
>  libmixlib-config-ruby1.8 libmixlib-log-ruby1.8 libmoneta-ruby1.8
>  libohai-ruby libohai-ruby1.8 librestclient-ruby1.8 libsystemu-ruby1.8
>  ohai ruby rubygems ucf
> 0 packages upgraded, 23 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> Need to get 1104kB of archives. After unpacking 12.0MB will be used.
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>  libchef-ruby1.8: Depends: libuuidtools-ruby1.8 which is a virtual package.
> Resolving dependencies...
> The following actions will resolve these dependencies:
>
> Keep the following packages at their current version:
> chef [Not Installed]
> libchef-ruby1.8 [Not Installed]
>
> Score is -9868
>
> Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?]
>
>
> Accepting with Y basically does nothing (0 packages installed).
> Am I missing something obvious? I don't know how to resolve this.
> Many thanks for any input!
> BvD
>

Hi!

I've reproduced this on a fresh 8.04.4 install. Looks like
libuuidtools-ruby1.8 is not installable, and therefore neither is
libchef-ruby1.8. I've opened a ticket for this issue:
http://tickets.opscode.com/browse/CHEF-1436

Cameron