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

[Tasdik Rahman]

Hey Juan, 

Upgraded the box to F24, this time it throws a `Error: Unable to find match` for ovirt-engine. Here’s the traceback. 

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[root at localhost ~]# dnf update
Failed to synchronize cache for repo 'ovirt-3.6', disabling.
Last metadata expiration check: 0:31:15 ago on Thu Mar  9 20:02:53 2017.
Dependencies resolved.
Nothing to do.
Complete!
[root at localhost ~]# cat /etc/fedora-release
Fedora release 24 (Twenty Four)
[root at localhost ~]# uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 4.5.5-300.fc24.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu May 19 13:05:32 UTC 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
[root at localhost ~]# dnf -y install ovirt-engine
Failed to synchronize cache for repo 'ovirt-3.6', disabling.
Last metadata expiration check: 0:31:26 ago on Thu Mar  9 20:02:53 2017.
No package ovirt-engine available.
Error: Unable to find a match.
[root at localhost ~]#
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Thanks, 
Tasdik

> On 09-Mar-2017, at 7:16 PM, Juan Hernández <jhernand at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> 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.
>> 
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>> [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 ~]#
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>> 
>> 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.
>