Ubuntu 16.04: Unable to install Kimchi

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== Comment: #0 - Clement Okoro <email address hidden> - 2016-08-08 19:31:44 ==
---Problem Description---
Unable to install Kimchi on Ubuntu 16.04 ppc64le

Contact Information = Adi Okoro / <email address hidden>

---uname output---
Linux ubuntu 4.4.0-31-generic #50-Ubuntu SMP Wed Jul 13 00:05:18 UTC 2016 ppc64le ppc64le ppc64le GNU/Linux

Machine Type = Tuleta

---Debugger---
A debugger is not configured

---Steps to Reproduce---
 1. Install Ubuntu 16.04 ppc64le on Tuleta.
2. Run "sudo su -", enter password.
3. Run "apt-get update"
4. Run "apt-get install qemu-kvm libvirt-bin ubuntu-vm-builder bridge-utils

5. Turn off SMT8:

root@ubuntu:/# ppc64_cpu --smt
SMT=8
root@ubuntu:/# ppc64_cpu --smt=off

root@ubuntu:/# ppc64_cpu --smt
SMT is off

6. Run "apt-get install kimchi"

The message "Setting up kimchi (1.5.0-0ubuntu1) ..." remains indefinitely.

== Comment: #2 - Clement Okoro <email address hidden> - 2016-08-09 08:15:25 ==
Hi Chandan, below is the output for the commands specified:

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Last login: Mon Aug 8 18:08:51 2016 from 9.65.2.29
user1@ubuntu:~$ sudo su -
[sudo] password for user1:

root@ubuntu:~# grep ^ /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/* | grep -v '#'
grep: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/*: No such file or directory
/etc/apt/sources.list:
/etc/apt/sources.list:
/etc/apt/sources.list:
/etc/apt/sources.list:deb http://us.ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/ xenial main restricted
/etc/apt/sources.list:
/etc/apt/sources.list:deb http://us.ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/ xenial-updates main restricted
/etc/apt/sources.list:
/etc/apt/sources.list:deb http://us.ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/ xenial universe
/etc/apt/sources.list:deb http://us.ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/ xenial-updates universe
/etc/apt/sources.list:
/etc/apt/sources.list:deb http://us.ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/ xenial multiverse
/etc/apt/sources.list:deb http://us.ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/ xenial-updates multiverse
/etc/apt/sources.list:
/etc/apt/sources.list:deb http://us.ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/ xenial-backports main restricted universe multiverse
/etc/apt/sources.list:
/etc/apt/sources.list:
/etc/apt/sources.list:deb http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports xenial-security main restricted
/etc/apt/sources.list:deb http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports xenial-security universe
/etc/apt/sources.list:deb http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports xenial-security multiverse
root@ubuntu:~#

Here is the output of the search command:

root@perf20488:~# apt-cache search kimchi
ginger - Host management plugin to Kimchi
kimchi - HTML5 based management tool for KVM
root@perf20488:~#

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------- Comment From <email address hidden> 2016-08-29 06:02 EDT-------
Canonical,

Can you please look into it and provide suggestion.

Thanks,
Chandan

[Jon Grimm (jgrimm)]

Reproduced on amd64 so this does not appear to be arch specific.

Probably related to this:
https://github.com/kimchi-project/kimchi/commit/375466014e9a5650846a1f976da132b234e39154