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Strange problem in puppet run for Ubuntu

Hi,

Short sharing of a strange case.

We’ve written a small manifest in order to distribute some python scripts. You can find the reference here: https://medium.com/metrosystemsro/new-ground-automatic-increase-of-kafka-lvm-on-gcp-311633b0816c

When you try to run it on Ubuntu 14.04, there is this very strange error:

Error: Failed to apply catalog: [nil, nil, nil, nil, nil, nil]

The cause for this is as follows:

Python 3.4.3 (default, Nov 12 2018, 22:25:49)
[GCC 4.8.4] on linux (and I believe this is the default max version on trusty)

In order to install the dependencies, you need python3-pip, so a short search returns following options:

apt search python3-pip
Sorting... Done
Full Text Search... Done
python3-pip/trusty-updates,now 1.5.4-1ubuntu4 all [installed]
  alternative Python package installer - Python 3 version of the package

python3-pipeline/trusty 0.1.3-3 all
  iterator pipelines for Python 3

If we want to list all the installed modules with pip3 list, guess what, it’s not working:

Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/usr/bin/pip3", line 5, in 
     from pkg_resources import load_entry_point
   File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/pkg_resources/init.py", line 93, in 
     raise RuntimeError("Python 3.5 or later is required")
 RuntimeError: Python 3.5 or later is required

So, main conclusion is that it’s not related to puppet, just the incompatibility between version for this old distribution.

Cheers

By Sorin Tudor

DevOps Engineer