Comment 2 for bug 569141

Hi Paul,

Right now the Phoronix Test Suite will continue on installing a test even if a dependency fails to install since we cater to all distributions and other OSes, just not Ubuntu/Debian, so rather than having a wider support burden with having to play additional hooks for apt-get/aptitude/yum/others checks to see if an external dependency properly installs. After all, this is just a very small part of the Phoronix Test Suite and with most users having the necessary dependencies already installed.

So this error is occurring whenever you try to install anything with an external dependency? What version of Ubuntu are you running? I've used Phoronix Test Suite 2.4/2.6/Git on literally dozens of Ubuntu 9.10/10.04-snapshots installations (and older versions in the past too) without encountering a "sudo: aptitude -y --allow-untrusted install libaio-dev: command not found" (or similar package) error message. Is there anything unique to your Ubuntu setup beyond a stock installation?

Also, I assume once you manually install the respective dependency, the test installs fine?

-- Michael