[jira] [Created] (CASSANDRA-12129) deb Packages cannot be installed under Ubuntu 16.04 (xenial) due to missing dependency

["Stuart Bishop (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Stuart Bishop created CASSANDRA-12129:
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             Summary: deb Packages cannot be installed under Ubuntu 16.04 (xenial) due to missing dependency
                 Key: CASSANDRA-12129
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-12129
             Project: Cassandra
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: Packaging
         Environment: Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial)
            Reporter: Stuart Bishop


The deb packages depend on python-support, which no longer exists in Ubuntu 16.04 (xenial).

$ sudo apt install cassandra
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:
 cassandra : Depends: python-support (>= 0.90.0) but it is not installable
             Recommends: ntp but it is not going to be installed or
                         time-daemon
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.




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