[jira] [Commented] (CASSANDRA-15889) Debian package fails to download on Arm-based hosts

["Matt Davis (Jira)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Matt Davis commented on CASSANDRA-15889:
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Bumping this issue. Worst case, it would be helpful to get the workaround posted to the Cassandra install instructions.

> Debian package fails to download on Arm-based hosts
> ---------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: CASSANDRA-15889
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-15889
>             Project: Cassandra
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Build
>            Reporter: Matt Davis
>            Priority: Normal
>              Labels: ARM, debian
>
> Following the first three steps of the [Debian install process|https://cassandra.apache.org/download/], after an apt-get update you'll see this line:
> {code:bash}
> $ sudo apt-get update
> ...
> N: Skipping acquire of configured file 'main/binary-arm64/Packages' as repository 'https://downloads.apache.org/cassandra/debian 311x InRelease' doesn't support architecture 'arm64'
> {code}
> Checking the [Debian repo|https://dl.bintray.com/apache/cassandra/dists/311x/main/] confirms there is no aarch64 variant available.
> Should you then attempt to install Cassandra:
> {code:bash}
> $ sudo apt-get install cassandra
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> Package cassandra is not available, but is referred to by another package.
> This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
> is only available from another source
> E: Package 'cassandra' has no installation candidate
> {code}
> The Redhat RPM contains a "noarch" arch type, so it will download on any host. (Cassandra does not use separate binaries/releases for different architectures, so this seems to be the correct approach, but adding an aarch64 variant would also suffice.)
> Note that there is a workaround available: if you specify "amd64" as the arch for the source, it downloads and runs on Arm without issue:
> {code:bash}
> deb [arch=amd64] https://downloads.apache.org/cassandra/debian 311x main
> {code}



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