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trustfundbaby
Asked: 2013-05-02 19:02:12 +0800 CST

how do I use chef to force ubuntu to install dependencies?

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New to chef.

I'm trying to install openjdk-6-jre-headless using chef, but first I went to try it out using apt-get and I get this this error

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
openjdk-6-jre-headless: Depends: openjdk-6-jre-lib (>= 6b27-1.12.3-0ubuntu1~10.04.1) but it is not going to be installed
                      Depends: ca-certificates-java but it is not going to be installed
                      Depends: tzdata-java but it is not going to be installed
                      Depends: java-common (>= 0.28) but it is not going to be installed
                      Depends: libnss3-1d (>= 3.12.3) but it is not going to be installed
                      Recommends: icedtea-6-jre-cacao (= 6b27-1.12.3-0ubuntu1~10.04.1) but it is not going to be installed

I know I could install each of those items by hand, but using chef-solo how would I automate all this. that is how could I get chef to install openjdk-6-jre-headless and install ALL the dependencies at the same time?

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2 Answers

  1. All you have to do is write into your recipe:

    package 'openjdk-6-jre-headless'

    Chef will install dependencies automatically.

    See the documentation on the 'package' resource.

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  2. The Chef apt provider adds the -y option to command lines so that all prompts are answered with "yes" and the command can run non-interactively.

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