So am I SOL on this? Is ARM considered an 'unsupported architecture' until 
I can create a 'dmidecode' for this platform?

On Wednesday, December 11, 2013 10:55:11 AM UTC-8, Jon Yeargers wrote:
>
> I can wget and install facter but the issues continue:
>
> root@plugpc-005:/tmp# apt-get install puppet
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these:
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>  facter : Depends: dmidecode but it is not installable
>  puppet : Depends: puppet-common (= 3.3.2-1puppetlabs1) but it is not 
> going to be installed
> E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or 
> specify a solution).
>
>
> root@plugpc-005:/tmp# apt-get install puppet-common
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these:
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>  facter : Depends: dmidecode but it is not installable
>  puppet-common : Depends: ruby-shadow but it is not installable or
>                           libshadow-ruby1.8 but it is not going to be 
> installed
>                  Depends: libaugeas-ruby but it is not going to be 
> installed or
>                           libaugeas-ruby1.9.1 but it is not going to be 
> installed or
>                           libaugeas-ruby1.8 but it is not going to be 
> installed
>                  Depends: hiera (>= 1.0.0) but it is not going to be 
> installed
>                  Depends: ruby-rgen (>= 0.6.5) but it is not going to be 
> installed
>                  Recommends: lsb-release but it is not going to be 
> installed
>                  Recommends: debconf-utils but it is not going to be 
> installed
> E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or 
> specify a solution).
>
>
> Attempts to install any of these packages gives me similar errors.
>
> On Wednesday, December 11, 2013 9:50:07 AM UTC-8, Jeff Bachtel wrote:
>>
>>  You can fetch it directly (wget, curl, whatever) from
>>
>>
>> http://apt.puppetlabs.com/pool/squeeze/main/f/facter/facter_1.6.18-1puppetlabs1_all.deb
>>
>> Jeff
>>
>> On 12/11/2013 12:39 PM, Jon Yeargers wrote:
>>  
>>  root@plugpc-005:~# apt-get install ruby libopenssl-ruby pciutils
>> Reading package lists... Done
>> Building dependency tree
>> Reading state information... Done
>> Note, selecting 'libruby' instead of 'libopenssl-ruby'
>> pciutils is already the newest version.
>> libruby is already the newest version.
>> ruby is already the newest version.
>> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
>>
>>  There isn't a 'download' option for apt-get on this system so I tried 
>> '--download-only':
>>
>>  root@plugpc-005:~# apt-get --download-only install  facter
>> Reading package lists... Done
>> Building dependency tree
>> Reading state information... Done
>> Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
>> requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
>> distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
>> or been moved out of Incoming.
>> The following information may help to resolve the situation:
>>
>>  The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>>  facter : Depends: dmidecode but it is not installable
>> E: Broken packages
>>  
>>  I added '--ignore-missing' but the result was the same. 
>>
>> On Wednesday, December 11, 2013 7:47:02 AM UTC-8, Jeff Bachtel wrote: 
>>>
>>>  demidecode (which is a hard dependency for facter) is not available for 
>>> armel in Debian's repository. I have confirmed that facter will not fail 
>>> outright when dmidecode is missing.
>>>
>>> The following facter variables will not be created, however:
>>> bios_release_date
>>> bios_vendor
>>> bios_version
>>> boardmanufacturer
>>> boardproductname
>>> boardserialnumber
>>> manufacturer
>>> productname
>>> serialnumber
>>> type
>>> uuid
>>>
>>> If that's acceptable for you, you can try
>>>
>>> apt-get install ruby libopenssl-ruby pciutils
>>> apt-get download facter
>>> dpkg -i --force-depends facter*.deb
>>> apt-get install puppet
>>>
>>> This will manually install the other facter dependencies (which should 
>>> exist for armel), download the facter .deb file, then do an install of it 
>>> without checking depends. The puppet install should succeed after that.
>>>
>>> I think facter's dmidecode dependency should be a Suggests vice a 
>>> Depends, and it might be worth filing a bugrep to get it changed.
>>>
>>> Jeff
>>>
>>>
>>> On 12/11/2013 10:31 AM, Jon Yeargers wrote:
>>>  
>>> I also tried 'apt-get dist-upgrade'. This brought down 'hiera' (along 
>>> with a few other things). 
>>>
>>>  Then tried 'apt-get install puppet-common' - this failed as 'facter' 
>>> needed a higher version.
>>>
>>>  .. so tried 'facter' but this failed with:
>>>
>>>  facter : Depends : dmidecode but it is not installable
>>>
>>>  
>>>  
>>>  If I do 'apt-cache search dmidecode' it isn't available.
>>>
>>> On Wednesday, December 11, 2013 7:26:02 AM UTC-8, Jon Yeargers wrote: 
>>>>
>>>> 'apt-get update' ran fine this time. 
>>>>
>>>>  'apt-get install puppet':
>>>>
>>>>  Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
>>>> requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
>>>> distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
>>>> or been moved out of Incoming.
>>>> The following information may help to resolve the situation:
>>>>
>>>>  The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>>>>  puppet : Depends: puppet-common (= 3.3.2-1puppetlabs1) but 
>>>> 2.6.2-5+squeeze8 is to be installed
>>>> E: Broken packages
>>>>
>>>>  
>>>>  I also tried uninstalling puppet and then doing the install. Same 
>>>> result.
>>>>
>>>>  
>>>>  
>>>> On Tuesday, December 10, 2013 3:11:27 PM UTC-8, Moses Mendoza wrote: 
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi all, apt.puppetlabs.com has been updated with additional 
>>>>> architectures so the 'all' packages should install. Can you check if 
>>>>> you still have the same issues? 
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 12:01 PM, Moses Mendoza <mo...@puppetlabs.com> 
>>>>> wrote: 
>>>>> > On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 10:52 AM, Jon Yeargers <ethr...@gmail.com> 
>>>>> wrote: 
>>>>> >> I updated the repository file using the official puppet-recommended 
>>>>> version. 
>>>>> >> The corrected line is: 
>>>>> >> 
>>>>> >> deb http://apt.puppetlabs.com squeeze main   (i mistakenly entered 
>>>>> 'wheezy' 
>>>>> >> above). 
>>>>> >> 
>>>>> >> When I do 'apt-get update' I'm told: 
>>>>> >> 
>>>>> >> W: Filed to fetch 
>>>>> >> http://apt.puppetlabs.com/dists/squeeze/ReleaseUnable to 
>>>>> >> find expected entry main/binary-armel/Packages in Meta-index file 
>>>>> (malformed 
>>>>> >> Release file?) 
>>>>> >> 
>>>>> >> 
>>>>> >> On Tuesday, December 10, 2013 9:11:44 AM UTC-8, Felix.Frank wrote: 
>>>>> >>> 
>>>>> >>> That's not the issue at all I think. 
>>>>> >>> 
>>>>> >>> Is that source.list entry from a howto? 
>>>>> >>> 
>>>>> >>> Have you tried the instructions here: 
>>>>> >>> 
>>>>> >>> 
>>>>> http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/puppetlabs_package_repositories.html#for-debian-and-ubuntu
>>>>>  
>>>>> >>> 
>>>>> >>> Because what apt is making of your configuration is plain wrong. 
>>>>> >>> 
>>>>> >>> On 12/10/2013 05:50 PM, Jon Yeargers wrote: 
>>>>> >>> > If I create a '/etc/apt/sources.list.d/puppet.list' with: 
>>>>> >>> > 
>>>>> >>> > deb http://apt.puppetlabs.com/pool wheezy stable 
>>>>> >>> > 
>>>>> >>> > I get: 
>>>>> >>> > 
>>>>> >>> > Failed to fetch 
>>>>> >>> > 
>>>>> >>> > 
>>>>> http://apt.puppetlabs.com/pool/dists/wheezy/stable/binary-armel/Packages.gz
>>>>>  
>>>>> >>> > 404 Not Found 
>>>>> >>> > 
>>>>> >>> > I'm thinking that I might need to set this up on an x86 machine 
>>>>> and then 
>>>>> >>> > rebuild the package file myself in a private repository. 
>>>>> > 
>>>>> > My apologies - this is a problem with our apt repository 
>>>>> configuration 
>>>>> > - we did not set it up to include architectures other than i386 and 
>>>>> > amd64. We will be remedying this soon, so that while we may not yet 
>>>>> > have arm-specific packages, at least our all-arch packages will 
>>>>> work. 
>>>>> > 
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