Cannot install AMC (Aerospike Management Console) on Debian 7

Tools AMC
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Hi,

Why does the amc documentation promote installing all packages separately(http://www.aerospike.com/docs/amc/install/linux/ubuntu/), when the control file in the .deb has a depends on all of them.

Can somebody do a apt-get install aerospike-amc-community and get it installed cause the dependencies should get resolved automatically, if the sources.list are correct. I downloaded the .deb and put it in a private repo.

I followed the docs and amc gets installed successfully, if i install everything separately as the docs say, but when i do a apt-get install it fails with error

“Depends: Python (>= 2.6) but it is not installable”

even though python-2.7 is already installed by default on wheezy.

Is this a bug or am i doing something wrong?

2

When you run: python --version is it 2.7? I think the default is 3.x in Debian 7. Also does Debian 7 use systemd? AMC may also have problems with that too.

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Python Version is 2.7.3 and systemd is not installed.

4

AMC requires python 2.6+ and doesn’t yet support python 3.

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@kporter: Did not understand, 2.7.3 is 2.6+ right? Also AMC works on the same box, if i install all dependencies separately.

6

Sorry for the misunderstanding, I had read it as python version 2.7.3 and systemd is not installed.

Can we see which python interpreter is executed by default?

/usr/bin/env python --version

Could you elaborate?

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It’s a bug in packaging. There is a difference between Python and python :scream:

I’ve solved this issue by:

  1. Downloading .deb package.
  2. mkdir -p amc/DEBIAN
  3. dpkg -x amc.x86_64.deb amc
  4. dpkg -e amc.x86_64.deb amc/DEBIAN
  5. Edit amc/DEBIAN/control by replacing Python with python
  6. Build new package with: dpkg -b amc aerospike-amc-community_3.6.2_all

Now you have properly working aerospike-amc-community_3.6.2_all.deb with AMC.

I’d love this to be fixed in upstream, but apparently AMC doesn’t have public repository/bug tracker :frowning:

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Hi,

Yes, We will change Python to python in package information, though we are able to install AMC on Debian 7.8. Can you please specify OS version which you were using?

Thanks.

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Both Debian Wheezy and Jessie.

You can install downloaded package via dpkg -i amc.deb, but as it won’t find all the dependencies it’ll remain in semi-installed state.

With the fix everything works fine.

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@b_a_t,

Thanks for identifying the bug in packaging! :blush: We fixed it upstream (via JIRA ticket TOOLS-48) and just released it in Release 3.6.4 of the Aerospike Management Console.