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

[Yedidyah Bar David]

On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 5:05 PM, Tasdik Rahman <prodicus at outlook.com> wrote:
> Hey Juan,
>
> Upgraded the box to F24, this time it throws a `Error: Unable to find match` for ovirt-engine. Here’s the traceback.
>
> +++
> [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.

3.6 is not available for f24. Please try with 4.1:

yum install http://resources.ovirt.org/pub/yum-repo/ovirt-release41.rpm

This is detailed in the release notes:

https://www.ovirt.org/release/4.1.0/

Best,

> 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 ~]#
> +++
>
> 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.
>>>
>>> +++
>>> [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.
>>
>
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