[CASSANDRA-16605] The dependencies in the Cassandra DEB package prevent installation on Ubuntu 20.04+

• Type: Task
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Normal
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 3.0.25, 3.11.11
• Component/s: Packaging
• Change Category: Semantic
• Complexity: Normal
• Platform: All

Source Control Link

https://github.com/apache/cassandra/commit/2e2bcc5261da407db05b09dfd4db8798ef7c0794

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• Assignee: Brandon Williams
• Reporter: Michael Kelly

Authors

Brandon Williams

Reviewers

Michael Semb Wever

• Created: 15/Apr/21 10:44
• Updated: 28/Jul/21 11:32
• Resolved: 16/Jun/21 18:54

Description

The DEB package for Cassandra has a dependency on 'python >= 2.7'.

In Ubuntu 18.04 there is a package called 'python' which installs python2.7.

This package has been removed in Ubuntu 20.04 so the dependency cannot be satisified.

 

Proposed solution:

Change the dependency 'python >= 2.7' to something like 'python2 >= 2.7 OR python3 >= 3.6'.