Kickstart.sh doesn't work for CentOS 8 & RHEL 8

[rirze]

Bug report summary

Running the kickstart.sh on CentOS 8 fails on 'Installation of required packages'.

/etc/os-release information:
NAME            : CentOS Linux
VERSION         : 8 (Core)
ID              : centos
ID_LIKE         : rhel fedora
VERSION_ID      : 8

We detected these:
Distribution    : centos
Version         : 8
Codename        : 8 (Core)
Package Manager : install_yum
Packages Tree   : centos
Detection Method: /etc/os-release
Default Python v: 2

This system is receiving updates from Red Hat Satellite or Spacewalk server.
Last metadata expiration check: 2:42:06 ago on Fri Sep 27 14:58:16 2019.
No match for argument: Judy-devel
No match for argument: MySQL-python
No match for argument: autoconf-archive
No match for argument: autogen
No match for argument: libmnl-devel
No match for argument: libuv-devel
No match for argument: python
There are following alternatives for "python": python2, python36
No match for argument: python-psycopg2



We are very sorry!

Installation of required packages failed.

What to do now:

1. Make sure your system is updated.
Most of the times, updating your system will resolve the issue.


2. If the error message is about a specific package, try removing
that package from the command and run it again.
Depending on the broken package, you may be able to continue.


3. Let us know. We may be able to help.
Open a github issue with the above log, at:


https://github.com/firehol/netdata/issues                                                                                             

OS / Environment

CentOS 8

Netdata version (ouput of netdata -V)

1.10.0 (I am limited to this version due to company policies. Version should be irrelevant to this issue)

Component Name

Installation scripts

Steps To Reproduce

bash kickstart.sh all --non-interactive

Expected behavior

Installation should succeed.

[paulkatsoulakis]

Hello @rirze, thank you for your report! I am sorry to hear you faced problems.
I 'll have a look on the matter and let you know, it just got released officially last week and we should have done our exercises to make sure it works.

[paulkatsoulakis]

@rirze i think you may be looking at an issue related to a really outdated version. I just tried our installer on a similar rhel 8 and works fine.

If it is absolutely necessary to work with 1.10.0 and can't use the latest release (any of the install options), you can try the static binary from that release or even better the static binary from the latest release, because it seems like your system repository is limited and causing the problem.

Let me know if that works for you.

[rirze]

Thanks, I will try that and get back to you.

[perryk]

Same troubles for me using Centos 8 and kickstart.sh from the latest master branch.

I have EPEL-8 enabled, however these in particular look to not be found:

No match for argument: Judy-devel
No match for argument: MySQL-python
No match for argument: libuv-devel
No match for argument: python-psycopg2

Packages exist for python2 and python3, however not for one named "python" . The alternatives command however can be used to set either 2 or 3.

Clearly Centos 8 is pretty new, just adding in a +1 to say I'm not able to use Kickstart.sh either.

[rirze]

The static installer works, although with a lot of changes to our current workflow. While this is okay for the short term, it would be relieving if there were corresponding packages for the maintenance of the service.

I'll be keeping this issue open so that may be resolved.

[paulkatsoulakis]

Regarding the kickstart installer, the issue raised on Cent OS 8 is the fact that python 2 package is no longer named "python", obviously due to the upcoming deprecation of version 2 they want to force users to be aware of this change.

We will have to change our dependency management script to facilitate that adjustment of the package name. The rest of the packages, libuv-devel and Judy-devel are not blocking for the netdata install, but it is an issue because we lose the DB engine capability.

@mfundul can you provide some insights how we could fetch the source package for those two on CentOS 8? It seems that only runtimes are available through binary packages for this version, unless they have moved the -devels to some repo that i can't find. Thanks!

[paulkatsoulakis]

Not to forget to mention the rest of the packages that are also missing btw autoconf-archive, autogen, libmnl-devel and MySQL-python, i still haven't found what is the state for those on Cent OS 8

[mfundul]

I've looked for libuv-devel in epel, elrepo and rpmfusion with no luck.

[mfundul]

https://lwn.net/Articles/796202/

## Known RHEL-8 packages missing -devel
* libblueray-devel
* liba52-devel
* libXvMC-devel
* libdvdnav-devel
* gfbgraph-devel
* libuv-devel
* rest-devel
* qgpgme-devel

[paulkatsoulakis]

interesting stuff, so they have split up packages differently on rhel 8, which i assume is inherited on Cent OS 8 too.
Details: https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/package_manifest/codereadybuilder-repository (autoconf-archive and autogen is missing from standard repos, but is on code ready builder)

[wccropper]

The code ready packages (autogen/autoconf-archive) are in the CentOS-PowerTools.repo, just enable it. But there are still missing packages :(