[BIGTOP-3362] Unable to install spark-python package on CentOS8 due to lack of python package

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.5.0

Environment

CentOS8

• Assignee: Masahiro Tanaka
• Reporter: Masahiro Tanaka
• Created: 01/Jun/20 05:23
• Updated: 04/Jun/20 23:46
• Resolved: 04/Jun/20 15:16

Description

There are no python package on CentOS 8 but it is required by spark-python package.

 

https://github.com/apache/bigtop/blob/00b394f8dcc54cc25d962c720c5fbcf8f88c5e07/bigtop-packages/src/rpm/spark/SPECS/spark.spec#L103 

 

As such, we failed to install spark-python package on CentOS8.

 

[root@97ab3c3dfa8f /]# cat /etc/os-release
NAME="CentOS Linux"
VERSION="8 (Core)"
ID="centos"
ID_LIKE="rhel fedora"
VERSION_ID="8"
PLATFORM_ID="platform:el8"
PRETTY_NAME="CentOS Linux 8 (Core)"
ANSI_COLOR="0;31"
CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:centos:centos:8"
HOME_URL="https://www.centos.org/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.centos.org/"

CENTOS_MANTISBT_PROJECT="CentOS-8"
CENTOS_MANTISBT_PROJECT_VERSION="8"
REDHAT_SUPPORT_PRODUCT="centos"
REDHAT_SUPPORT_PRODUCT_VERSION="8"

[root@97ab3c3dfa8f /]# dnf install spark-python
Failed to set locale, defaulting to C.UTF-8
Last metadata expiration check: 0:09:13 ago on Mon Jun  1 05:12:18 2020.
Error:
 Problem: conflicting requests
  - nothing provides python needed by spark-python-2.4.5-1.el7.noarch
(try to add '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable packages or '--nobest' to use not only best candidate packages)
[root@97ab3c3dfa8f /]# dnf info python
Failed to set locale, defaulting to C.UTF-8
Last metadata expiration check: 0:09:20 ago on Mon Jun  1 05:12:18 2020.
Error: No matching Packages to list

 

ref. https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2019/05/07/what-no-python-in-red-hat-enterprise-linux-8/

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #644