Cockpit experimental package seems broken

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Please bare with me. I’m a long time Slackware ( 2002 ) user and more recently ( past 5 years ) have been mostly using FreeBSD at work with Mac as a desktop. I’m giving SUSE a try as an at home server, mostly for support of some newer sys admin technologies ( snappy and cockpit ), while also keeping rock solid stability I’m used to, hopefully.

I’m running openSUSE Leap 15

I’m currently trying to install cockpit experimental package - https://software.opensuse.org/package/cockpit
I can into an issue while using the one click installer. There was a warning:

“nothing provides storaged >= 2.1.1 needed by cockpit-storaged-0.79-1.284.noarch”

Conflict resolution gives me two options which I suspect will fail due to the nature of the software - don’t install, don’t install cockpit-storaged.

Through some research I found that storaged is now named udisks, as of 2.6.4. On the github, under the legacy branch, there is a link in the readme to tarball releases, the earliest one being the last one named storaged. Too good to be true, this did not resolve the error.

Through a little deeper dive, I found that users of CentOS had an identical issue, udisks being available and/or installed, but the package requiring - erroneously - storaged. https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/issues/9159 https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/pull/9160/commits/15c773d33417c2a0cc4e5207a6595bebf728ee8c

I’m hoping this is a similar case for openSUSE as my experience with the OS so far has been positive.

Where might I find something similar in the YaST package system where I might be able to tell the package to use udrives instead of the old name of storaged? I’m not very familiar with packaging systems in Slackware, RedHat/CentOS, or SUSE.

[edit]
As I pressed the submit button I noticed the links I posted were titled CentOS but were for the official package itself. I’m hoping this is the right place for this.

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First FYI I posted the methods I use to find a missing file, library, etc in this other Forum thread
https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/531548-Search-for-a-well-known-library?p=2868808#post2868808

Also,
Package names may be varied and have no relationship to whether a dependency is filled…
It’s the individual files within the package that are important, and you can list a package’s contents with the following

rpm -ql *packagename *

If a file name is <still> not what is required but you know or want to test whether the file might fill a need using a different name, then the next step is to create a symlink in a specific location (and name) pointing to the file that should fill the need.

HTH,
TSU

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Hi
Since it’s not built for Leap 15, I’m guessing your 1-click installed the factory version which is not compatible and failing too, plus it’s a way out of date version (un-maintained project perhaps).
https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/systemsmanagement:cockpit/cockpit

The latest cockpit release is 169…
https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/releases

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… uh, no. I do not skinny dip with strangers.:stuck_out_tongue:

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We’ll just have to have a drink first. :stuck_out_tongue:

I resorted to my Slackware roots and installed from GitHub, manually resolving dependencies, using yast and npm where applicable. Now I just have to figure out how to run the thing. Their docs rely completely on: “there’s a package for these distros, use those.”

Actually the docs look pretty good. There’s just no “here’s an out of the box solution not using one of these other distros”

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On Thu 14 Jun 2018 10:16:03 PM CDT, WrinkledCheese wrote:

Fraser_Bell;2869587 Wrote:
> … uh, no. I do not skinny dip with strangers.:stuck_out_tongue:

We’ll just have to have a drink first. :stuck_out_tongue:

I resorted to my Slackware roots and installed from GitHub, manually
resolving dependencies, using yast and npm where applicable. Now I just
have to figure out how to run the thing. Their docs rely completely on:
“there’s a package for these distros, use those.”

Hi
There is a lot…!!! have a look at the spec file for all the
details…

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