Latest version of elasticsearch can't be installed

[mikehaertl]

I've installed your package under Vagrant and tried to install elasticsearch 0.90.2 on a precise64 box with a configuration like this:

class { 'elasticsearch':
  version => '0.90.2'
}

During vagrant provision i get this error:

err: /Stage[main]/Elasticsearch::Package/Package[elasticsearch]/ensure: change from purged to 0.90.2 failed: Could not update: Execution of '/usr/bin/apt-get -q -y -o DPkg::Options::=--force-confold --force-yes install elasticsearch=0.90.2' returned 100: Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
E: Unable to locate package elasticsearch
 at /tmp/vagrant-puppet/modules-0/elasticsearch/manifests/package.pp:82

I have to admit that i'm quite new to puppet, so maybe i miss a basic step. But isn't the main idea that the module should take care of the complete installation process and add apt repos if neccessary?

Sorry if this is an invalid bug. I'd appreciate any help.

[electrical]

Thank you for using the puppet module and your full report.
With this puppet module by default i assume elasticsearch is available via some repository.
When that's not possible for some reason you can supply the .deb. or .rpm package via 'pkg_source' variable option; for example:

class { 'elasticsearch':
  pkg_source => 'puppet:///path/to/elasticsearch-0.90.2.deb'
}

Hope this makes it more clearer for you?

[mikehaertl]

Thanks, that really helps a lot!

Can I also point to some URL (e.g. the official elasticsearch download location)?

[electrical]

I'm afraid an URL won't work, its a possible feature though but think it will barely be used.
You can best put the package in the vagrant dir and use that.

[mikehaertl]

Ok, thanks for your help. Maybe you should also add the above option as example to the README?

[electrical]

Good point :-) will put it on my todo list. Thanks.

[mikehaertl]

Sorry, it's still not quite working.

I've put the file under vagrant/modules/elasticsearch/files/elasticsearch-0.90.2.deb and configured your module like

class { 'elasticsearch' :
  pkg_source => 'puppet:///modules/elasticsearch/files/elasticsearch-0.90.2.deb'
}

The error then is

err: /Stage[main]/Elasticsearch::Package/File[/tmp/elasticsearch-0.90.2.deb]: Could not evaluate: Could not retrieve information from environment production source(s) puppet:///modules/elasticsearch/files/elasticsearch-0.90.2.deb at /tmp/vagrant-puppet/modules-0/elasticsearch/manifests/package.pp:65

What's wrong?

[mikehaertl]

I also found this link where they suggest to create an empty lib directory in any puppet module. So i created vagrant/modules/elasticsearch/lib but no difference. Still get the same error message.

[mikehaertl]

Ok, after learning more about puppets file serving i changed the configuration to:

class { 'elasticsearch' :
  pkg_source => 'puppet:///modules/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-0.90.2.deb'
}

Note the missing files. Now it almost works. I get another error that the service could not be started. But i'll open another issue, as this is not related to installation anymore.

Sorry for the noise :)

[mikehaertl]

It finally works. I had to install java. So i downloaded the java module from here and added

class { 'java': }
class { 'elasticsearch' :
  pkg_source => 'puppet:///modules/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-0.90.2.deb'
}

to my puppet config. I'm not sure if this is the right way, but at least it works.

@electrical
If you think I could improve that setup i'm happy to hear about it. :)

[electrical]

Hi, that can work fine yeah.
In the module it self i also provide a way to install java ( not completely documented yet )
But using an other module is usually better :-)

Glad its working now.

[yonromai]

I had the same problem on ubuntu 12.04. Worked like a charm!
Thanks a ton mike!

[philfreo]

So what's the recommended approach in Puppet to get the elasticsearch-0.90.3.deb file downloaded locally from wget https://download.elasticsearch.org/elasticsearch/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-0.90.3.deb so that it can be installed? Rather than checking the a 17MB file into the puppetmaster config source control repo.

[philfreo]

In case this helps somebody else, here's how I installed ElasticSearch 0.90.3 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS with Puppet + this module:

class our_elasticsearch($version='0.90.3') {

  # We couldn't simply rely on the 'elasticsearch' module from:
  # https://github.com/elasticsearch/puppet-elasticsearch because it requires your desired
  # version to be in your package manager, but ours isn't.

  exec { "download_elasticsearch":
    command => "/usr/bin/wget https://download.elasticsearch.org/elasticsearch/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-${version}.deb -O /tmp/elasticsearch-${version}.deb",
    creates => "/tmp/elasticsearch-${version}.deb"
  }

  package { 'openjdk-7-jre-headless': ensure => present }

  class { 'elasticsearch':
    pkg_source  => "/tmp/elasticsearch-${version}.deb",
    require     => [ Package['openjdk-6-jre-headless'], Exec['download_elasticsearch'] ],
    autoupgrade => true,
  }

}

[eddiejaoude]

Thanks @philfreo

[electrical]

@eddiejaoude @philfreo im working on a re-write of the module which will provide different ways of getting the package installed.
It will contain the following options:
repository install ( default ) http, https, ftp downloads. puppet:// file resource or file: ( localfile ) resource )

Hope this will help in future deployments.