Can't install ee stack on fresh machine: "No package named 'nginx-custom'"

[vitaligent]

Here's the stack trace. I'm happy to provide more details or let you login to my machine. Thanks for creating easyengine. I love this project!

root@quad:~# ee stack install
Adding repository for MySQL
Adding repository for Nginx
Adding repository for PHP
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apt/cache.py", line 198, in getitem
return self._weakref[key]
File "/usr/lib/python3.4/weakref.py", line 125, in getitem
o = self.datakey
KeyError: 'nginx-custom'

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/ee", line 9, in
load_entry_point('ee==3.0', 'console_scripts', 'ee')()
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/ee-3.0-py3.4.egg/ee/cli/main.py", line 84, in main
app.run()
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/cement-2.4.0-py3.4.egg/cement/core/foundation.py", line 694, in run
self.controller._dispatch()
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/cement-2.4.0-py3.4.egg/cement/core/controller.py", line 455, in _dispatch
return func()
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/cement-2.4.0-py3.4.egg/cement/core/controller.py", line 461, in _dispatch
return func()
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/ee-3.0-py3.4.egg/ee/cli/plugins/stack.py", line 1257, in install
EEAptGet.install(self, apt_packages)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/ee-3.0-py3.4.egg/ee/core/aptget.py", line 86, in install
if not install_package(self, package):
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/ee-3.0-py3.4.egg/ee/core/aptget.py", line 64, in install_package
pkg = apt_cache[package_name.strip()]
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apt/cache.py", line 205, in getitem
raise KeyError('The cache has no package named %r' % key)
KeyError: "The cache has no package named 'nginx-custom'"

[vitaligent]

I figured it out. The script needs to install "software-properties-common". It assumes it's there. So the add-apt-repository command fails.

[vitaligent]

The script also needs to install the "bsdutils" package. I'm installing this on a minimal config, so all these packages are probably assumed to be present.

Reopening issue because I didn't fix it myself in the source code. I can't seem to find where the list of packages is kept.

[kudabesix]

my own solution so far, installing software-properties-common and python-software-properties, then set locale to UTF-8 with this code:
sudo locale-gen en_US.UTF-8
export LANG=en_US.UTF-8

at least, in my server could work

[vitaligent]

@kudabesix - You are correct. I had to fix locale and install python-software-properties as well. Thanks.

[gau1991]

@kudabesix @vitaligent ,
Thanks for pointing this issue.
We all did all testing where our environment is en_US-UTF-8, so we never faced this issue.
We will fixing this issue as soon as possible in EE 3.0

[gau1991]

@kudabesix ,
What was your previous locale?
Can you give me output of following command?

echo $LANG

[Greybane]

In my case I had to install "python-software-properties" to fix it.