installing puppetdb on Debian 6 [wheezy]

Peter Berghold

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May 20, 2014, 3:22:24 PM5/20/14

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Hi folks,

Attempting to install puppetdb on Debian 6 and have run into a bit of a roadblock.

It's complaining that java7 is not on the system and yet:

:/usr/lib/jvm# java -version

java version "1.7.0_51"

Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0_51-b13)

Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 24.51-b03, mixed mode)

I suppose it is looking for a packaged called j2re1.7 or java7-runtime-headless. Any way of faking this out so it works with the Oracle version?

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Christopher Wood

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What's the error message?

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Peter Berghold

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The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:

puppetdb : Depends: java7-runtime-headless but it is not installable or

j2re1.7 but it is not installable

E: Broken packages

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In your situation, I'd file a bug with puppetlabs about this, at least because this makes puppetdb not trivially installable in squeeze. From the control files for the last two puppetdb packages:

Package: puppetdb
Version: 2.0.0-1puppetlabs1
Architecture: all
Maintainer: Puppet Labs <in...@puppetlabs.com>
Installed-Size: 24176
Depends: java7-runtime-headless | j2re1.7, adduser, puppet (>= 2.7.12)

Package: puppetdb
Version: 1.6.3-1puppetlabs1
Architecture: all
Maintainer: Puppet Labs <in...@puppetlabs.com>
Installed-Size: 23732
Depends: java7-runtime-headless | j2re1.7 | java6-runtime-headless, adduser, puppet (>= 2.7.12)

That said, openjdk-7-jre-headless exists in wheezy (provided by openjdk-7-jre-headless) and you'll probably do less work if you build your hosts in wheezy. I personally would go for the less-work version.

Apart from that, you could try one of these:

create and install a stub java7-runtime-headless deb just to get it in the installed packages list
use apt pinning to install an earlier puppetdb (but http://docs.puppetlabs.com/puppetdb/latest/puppetdb-faq.html#which-versions-of-java-are-supported if you have issues later)
import openjdk-7-jre-headless and dependencies from wheezy to your squeeze repo and see if it installs/functions cleanly
repackage puppetdb without that dependency (now I'm getting ridiculous)

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Ken Barber

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May 20, 2014, 8:24:12 PM5/20/14

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The control file was modified in particular to be compatible with the
make-jpkg created packages to work around older releases like Debian 6
squeeze:

https://wiki.debian.org/JavaPackage

Unfortunately this was the closest we could find to a standard way of
supporting a dependency against a Debian 6 built JDK 7 package. Its
unfortunate openjdk 7 was never back-ported to squeeze, but these
decisions are beyond us mere mortals.

So as long as your package is built using the standard make-jpkg
instructions, this should work for you. In our tests we've created a
repo of a make-jpkg package for ourselves and it adequately works
during our acceptance tests, so it should work for others in theory -
(unless the package name was customised I suppose).

If it doesn't work, provide the details of the created package and
I'll take a look.

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