provisioning attempts on VPS and VirtualBox (vagrant) Ubuntu distros leads to different results

[Gallagher Polyn]

I'm experimenting with Ansible (1.5) on VirtualBox (using Vagrant) and on a VPS. For this, I've been using a role from Ansible Galaxy (sgmac.rbenv - galaxy.ansible.com/list#/roles/335.)

The role installs without error on my VirtualBox Ubuntu Lucid vm, but I encounter two fatal errors on my (Digital Ocean) VPS Lucid vm:

• Could not import python modules: apt, apt_pkg. Please install python-apt package.
  
• (Then, after installing python-apt, manually,) stderr: rbenv: no such command `install'
  

Why would the base VMs be different? Can an issue like this be avoided by choice of another distro?

Thanks,

G

[Paul Durivage]

I think this is a side effect of the many package managers out there, and unfortunately, is the nature of the beast.  Your VPS has chosen to image a version of Ubuntu that has fewer packages installed than your Vagrant VM.

This error you're seeing with python-apt should be resolved in the next dot release: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/6530.

That's pretty weird that you're seeing some rbenv errors -- I'm not sure how they're related to python-apt.  I'm a bit out of my league here (since these are both parts of the Ruby toolchain), but I think you'd benefit from reinstalling the latest version of rbenv and ruby-build via apt.

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[Gallagher Polyn]

I think this is a side effect of the many package managers out there, and unfortunately, is the nature of the beast.  Your VPS has chosen to image a version of Ubuntu that has fewer packages installed than your Vagrant VM.

Yes, this is confirmed by at least one respondent to my question about this on Digital Ocean: www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/why-are-my-virtualbox-ubuntu-images-different-from-the-same-do-distros

Since my post, I've been encountering this difference between Digital Ocean Ubuntu VMs and my local VirtualBox development VMs routinely.

Thanks,

G