[ovirt-devel] Error while installing ovirt-engine (Error: Requires: classpathx-mail)

[Juan Hernández]

On 03/09/2017 02:23 PM, Tasdik Rahman wrote:
> Hey everyone, 
> 
> I was trying to get ovirt up and running on my local F19(64bit) VM box
> following
> the http://www.ovirt.org/documentation/quickstart/quickstart-guide/ blog
> post. 
> 
> The installation stops abruptly when I try to do a `yum -y install
> ovirt-engine`. Here is what I tried.
> 
> +++
> [root at localhost ~]# yum install
> http://resources.ovirt.org/pub/yum-repo/ovirt-release36.rpm
> Loaded plugins: langpacks, refresh-packagekit
> ovirt-release36.rpm                                                    
>                                                                        
>                                      |  10 kB  00:00:00
> Examining /var/tmp/yum-root-9p0rub/ovirt-release36.rpm:
> 1:ovirt-release36-3.6.7-1.noarch
> /var/tmp/yum-root-9p0rub/ovirt-release36.rpm: does not update installed
> package.
> Error: Nothing to do
> [root at localhost ~]# yum -y install ovirt-engine
> ….
> ….
> ---> Package stringtemplate.noarch 0:3.2.1-5.fc19 will be installed
> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
> Error: Package: ovirt-engine-notification-service-3.1.0-1.fc19.noarch
> (fedora)
>            Requires: classpathx-mail
>  You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
>  You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest
> [root at localhost ~]#
> +++
> 
> I read thought some bug zilla issues[1] which state that this package
> has been retired. But no solution was provided for it. My aim is to just
> test it on a single host. How should I go about this?
> 
> Thanks for your time, 
> Tasdik
> 
> 1: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1001137
> 

Fedora 19 isn't a supported oVirt platform (and quite old, out of
support itself). Try CentOS 7 or Fedora 24.