Fixing Vagrant Chef Apache2 install errors

22 January 2013

Are you getting an error that looks like this?

[2013-01-21T19:24:34+01:00] INFO: Processing package[apache2] action install (apache2::default line 20)

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Error executing action `install` on resource 'package[apache2]'
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Chef::Exceptions::Exec
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apt-get -q -y install apache2=2.2.14-5ubuntu8.9 returned 100, expected 0

Resource Declaration:
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# In /tmp/vagrant-chef-1/chef-solo-1/cookbooks/apache2/recipes/default.rb

 19: 
 20: package "apache2" do
 21:   package_name node['apache']['package']
 22: end
 23: 

Make sure you include the apt recipe before this. It performs an apt-get update which will fix this problem.