Bug #3113
closed
python-yaml dependency is actually ptyhon3-yaml dependency
Added by Peter Manev over 5 years ago.
Updated about 5 years ago.
Description
While installing Suricata (with suricata-update) from source on a clean Debian/Ubuntu system without having the pkg "python-yaml" present on the OS is triggering the following warning-
checking whether TPACKET_V3 is declared... yes
checking whether SOF_TIMESTAMPING_RAW_HARDWARE is declared... yes
checking for ./suricata-update/setup.py... yes
Warning: suricata-update will not be installed as the
depedency python-yaml is not installed.
Debian/Ubuntu: apt install python-yaml
Fedora: dnf install python-yaml
CentOS/RHEL: yum install python-yaml
But suricata-update is installed only if the package "python3-yaml" is present on the system.
- Assignee set to OISF Dev
- Target version set to TBD
I guess it might get harder in the future to cover all releases as some distris also change package names. But nevertheless we could change that to python3-yaml in that case.
Package suggestions might get tricky, the Python 2 vs 3 also adds to the complexity here.
If the system has Python 3 installed, it will be used. So you need the Python 3 yaml module. If the system does not have Python 3, Python 2 will be used, so you will need the Python 2 yaml module.
I think for the git master / 5.0 we can suggest the python3 based packages only.
- Status changed from New to Assigned
- Target version changed from TBD to 5.0.0
- Assignee changed from OISF Dev to Andreas Herz
We could use python3-yaml on recent fedora as well although we could also go for python3-pyyaml which the first is an alias to, same for CentOS 8.
I would propose:
Debian/Ubuntu: apt install python3-yaml
Fedora: dnf install python3-pyyaml
CentOS/RHEL: yum install python3-pyyaml
Can we close this? Git master now handles this a little differently. For example, if the Python yaml module is missing, this is now the message:
Warning: suricata-update will not be installed as the
Python yaml module is not installed..
Install the yaml module for Python 2 to enable
suricata-update.
With the following in the ./configure summary:
Python support: yes
Python path: /bin/python2.7
Python distutils yes
Python yaml no
Install suricatactl: yes
Install suricatasc: yes
Install suricata-update: no, requires pyyaml
The idea here to keep from trying to be correct on every distro, which is getting harder, yet still give enough info to know whats wrong.
Perhaps a Wiki page for distribution specific installation notes.
Commit:
https://github.com/OISF/suricata/commit/109cf36866ee8743e94f44857f182ad76a4cc5f6
- Related to Optimization #3039: configure: don't generate warnings on missing features added
- Status changed from Assigned to Closed
- Assignee changed from Andreas Herz to Jason Ish
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