Couchbase package is not available for trusty on ppc64le architecture

[Mahesh Waidande]

I want to explore couchbase database so I decided to install it on my trusty (Ubuntu 14.04) machine but not able to do it as couchbase was neither part of Ubuntu repository nor it has any installer available for ppc64le.

I used below two approaches to install couchbase on trusty machine,

1. Download couchbase from ‘http://www.couchbase.com/nosql-databases/downloads’ site.
     When I access couchbase site I observe that it will contain binaries only for windows platform (x86 and x86_64). I google around couchbase installation and construct http://packages.couchbase.com/releases/2.0.0/couchbase-server-community_ppc64le_2.0.0.deb url to fetch and install couchbase-server but while fetching it I encounter with ‘403: Forbidden’ error. I had done some experiments with couchbase versions and construct couple of url’s to fetch couchbase package but every time I encounter with ‘403: Forbidden’ error. After quite a few failure attempts I drop this approach and move to second one.

2. Using apt-get
    When I try to install couchbase using apt-get I encounter with ‘E: Unable to locate package couchbase-server’ error. I tried with both keywords ‘couchbase’ and ‘couchbase-server’ but still not able to install it on trusty.

Here are some details which will help to understand machine architecture, distro details and error occurred,

$ uname -a
Linux pts00433-vm19 3.16.0-30-generic #40~14.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Thu Jan 15 17:42:36 UTC 2015 ppc64le ppc64le ppc64le GNU/Linux
$

$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS
Release: 14.04
Codename: trusty
$

$ sudo apt-get install -y couchbase-server
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package couchbase-server
$

$ apt-cache policy couchbase-server
N: Unable to locate package couchbase-server
$

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[Mahesh Waidande (mahesh-waidande1248)]

As suggested in above comment I visited https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1521588/+editstatus URL for changing source package name against this particular bug has been filed. I tried out all the options present in package/project drop down but for all permutation combination I encounter same error “There is 1 error in the data you entered. Please fix it and try again.”. For more information I have attached snapshot error which I have encountered while adding source package.

I have raised this bug against couchbase https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1521588/+editstatus package which is not a part of Ubuntu trusty. I required this package to be part of Ubuntu trusty distribution for porting couchbase charm https://bugs.launchpad.net/charms/+source/couchbase/+bug/1387855 on ppc64le.