Following QuickStart instructions, "run_test.sh" fails with "Please install 'python-virtualenv'", which doesn't exist as a yum package

[David M. Karr]

I'm trying to check out and build Horizon so I can investigate some changes.

I'm following the instructions at http://docs.openstack.org/developer/horizon/quickstart.html .

I'm using a CentOS 6.6 VM.

When I ran "./run_tests.sh", it said this:
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% ./run_tests.sh
Checking environment.
Environment not found. Install? (Y/n) y
Fetching new src packages...
which: no virtualenv in (/home/dk068x/frameworks/node-v0.10.32-linux-x64/bin:/home/dk068x/frameworks/gradle-2.3/bin:/home/dk068x/frameworks/apache-ant-1.9.3/bin:/home/dk068x/frameworks/apache-maven-3.2.1/bin:/home/dk068x/bin:/home/dk068x/frameworks/groovy-2.4.1/bin:/usr/lib64/qt-3.3/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin)
Please install 'python-virtualenv'.
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This is curious, because I pasted the earlier "yum install" line as described in the page. I ran it again:
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% sudo yum install gcc git-core python-devel python-virtualenv openssl-devel libffi-devel which
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, refresh-packagekit, security
Setting up Install Process
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
Package gcc-4.4.7-11.el6.x86_64 already installed and latest version
Package git-1.7.1-3.el6_4.1.x86_64 already installed and latest version
Package python-devel-2.6.6-52.el6.x86_64 already installed and latest version
No package python-virtualenv available.
Package openssl-devel-1.0.1e-30.el6_6.5.x86_64 already installed and latest version
Package libffi-devel-3.0.5-3.2.el6.x86_64 already installed and latest version
Package which-2.19-6.el6.x86_64 already installed and latest version
Nothing to do
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Is there another repo I'm supposed to be configuring here?

[Matthias Runge (mrunge)]

Note, CentOS 6 uses python 2.6; OpenStack deprecated python 2.6 during Kilo development cycle. Last Django supporting python-2.6 is not updated any more by Django upstream.

python-virtualenv is found in EPEL repos: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL

Please consider to move to CentOS 7.

[David M. Karr (davidmichaelkarr)]

Acknowledged. I'd like to see the QuickStart page updated to reflect this, or at least contain a link to a page that lists required versions of OSes and other artifacts.

[David M. Karr (davidmichaelkarr)]

Just so it's clear, I'm not telling anyone to make that change. I'd like to explore doing it myself, unless someone else used to working with the docs thinks it's such an obvious change that they do it themselves. :)

[Akihiro Motoki (amotoki)]

run_tests.sh was dropped in Queens. We don't fix anymore even if there was a problem related to run_tests.sh.