What is the idiomatic way to install a Debian package using Chef?

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Tampa picture Tampa · Mar 28, 2012 · Viewed 8.3k times · Source

Below my code for installing vcider. I am learning chef but have not seen anything for installing a dpkg. I would like to use version in the script. The code below works. 

script "install_vcider" do
  interpreter "bash"
  user "root"
  cwd "/tmp"
  code <<-EOH
  wget https://my.vcider.com/m/downloads/vcider_2.0.1b_amd64.deb
  dpkg -i vcider__amd64.deb
  EOH
end

Even with the code above can I replace 2.0.1b with #{version}? attribute file -> default[:vcider][:version] 2.0.1b

recipe file - > version = node[:vcider][:version]

Answer

Charles Duffy picture Charles Duffy · Mar 28, 2012

The Right Thing is to use the built-in resource types. Presuming you've set the version and arch variables appropriately:

remote_file "/tmp/vcider_#{version}_#{arch}.deb" do
  source "https://my.vcider.com/m/downloads/vcider_#{version}_#{arch}.deb"
  mode 0644
  checksum "" # PUT THE SHA256 CHECKSUM HERE
end

dpkg_package "vcider" do
  source "/tmp/vcider_#{version}_#{arch}.deb"
  action :install
end

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