Ubuntu 12.04 (LTS) - icehouse - heat packaging issues

[Srivatsan Desikan]

The apt-get install heat-api heat-api-cfn heat-engine fails with the following error:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 heat-api : Depends: heat-common (= 2014.1~b3-0ubuntu1~cloud0) but it is not going to be installed
 heat-api-cfn : Depends: heat-common (= 2014.1~b3-0ubuntu1~cloud0) but it is not going to be installed
 heat-engine : Depends: heat-common (= 2014.1~b3-0ubuntu1~cloud0) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

If you go down the chain by trying to install heat-common, you get stuck at python-qpid-python

I am using Icehouse build on Ubuntu 12.04.2

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Built: 2014-03-25T08:06:32 00:00
git SHA: 978b10a5f799b13d9d3fdf55cf32b3767dd339ca
URL: http://docs.openstack.org/trunk/install-guide/install/apt/content/heat-install.html
source File: file:/home/jenkins/workspace/openstack-install-deploy-guide-ubuntu/doc/install-guide/section_heat-install.xml
xml:id: heat-install

[Gauvain Pocentek (gpocentek)]

I managed to install heat using aptitude. After a few tries it offers a good solution.

IMO this is a packaging bug that should be resolved in the ubuntu PPA. I'd rather let the doc as is for now, and possibly revisit this choice when the RC packages are ready.

[Srivatsan Desikan (srivatsand)]

Thanks Gauvain... can you'd entail the steps you used with aptitude... heres what i get

# aptitude install -y heat-api heat-api-cfn heat-engine
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  heat-api heat-api-cfn heat-common{a} heat-engine python-extras{a} python-fixtures{a} python-heat{ab} python-mimeparse{a}
  python-sendfile{a} python-support{a} python-testtools{a}
0 packages upgraded, 11 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 983 kB of archives. After unpacking 6,296 kB will be used.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 python-heat : Depends: python-qpid-python which is a virtual package.
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:

     Keep the following packages at their current version:
1) heat-api [Not Installed]
2) heat-api-cfn [Not Installed]
3) heat-common [Not Installed]
4) heat-engine [Not Installed]
5) python-heat [Not Installed]

No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used.

There is a package called qpid-python but nothing called python-qpid-python. I am wondering if they made a typo in specifying dependencies.

It would be very helpful if you post the steps as to how you got the install to work using aptitude.. Thanks in advance for that

[Gauvain Pocentek (gpocentek)]

The package should depend on python-qpid to pick the correct dependency. The proposed bzr merge should fix this bug.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Ninad (nindate)]

Is there any workaround for this issue that can be used till a fix is done?