Azure-cli: Unable to install latest azure-cli-2.0.77-1.el7.x86_64 on RedHat 7

[captainbrown]

azure-cli-2.0.77-1.el7.x86_64

Describe the bug
The python3 package is not available on RedHat 7, but the latest release of azure-cli-2.0.77-1.el7 requires that to be installed. This is not available in RedHat 7 repos

To Reproduce
$ sudo yum install azure-cli
Loaded plugins: langpacks, product-id, search-disabled-repos, subscription-
: manager
This system is not registered with an entitlement server. You can use subscription-manager to register.
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package azure-cli.x86_64 0:2.0.76-1.el7 will be updated
---> Package azure-cli.x86_64 0:2.0.77-1.el7 will be an update
--> Processing Dependency: python3 for package: azure-cli-2.0.77-1.el7.x86_64
--> Processing Dependency: libpython3.6m.so.1.0()(64bit) for package: azure-cli-2.0.77-1.el7.x86_64
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Package: azure-cli-2.0.77-1.el7.x86_64 (azure-cli)
Requires: python3
Error: Package: azure-cli-2.0.77-1.el7.x86_64 (azure-cli)
Requires: libpython3.6m.so.1.0()(64bit)
You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem

Expected behavior
I expect it to be able to install the latest version of Azure CLI on an OS that does not have a package for python3 natively

Environment summary
NAME="Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server"
VERSION="7.6 (Maipo)"
ID="rhel"
ID_LIKE="fedora"
VARIANT="Server"
VARIANT_ID="server"
VERSION_ID="7.6"
PRETTY_NAME="Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7.6 (Maipo)"
ANSI_COLOR="0;31"
CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.6:GA:server"
HOME_URL="https://www.redhat.com/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/"

$ python3 --version
Python 3.4.10

[captainbrown]

This was forewarned in https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cli/azure/install-azure-cli-yum?view=azure-cli-latest

Closing

[captainbrown]

Coming back to this one. Even if I have python3 installed via the only way to get it on RedHat7, I still cannot install the latest Azure CLI. I think it's because yum doesn't have a record of the install because it's simply not available in the repository for RedHat 7.

Does this mean that RedHat 7 is no longer supported for Azure CLI, or am I missing something?

$ python3 --version
Python 3.7.4
$ sudo yum install azure-cli
Loaded plugins: langpacks, product-id, search-disabled-repos
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package azure-cli.x86_64 0:2.0.77-1.el7 will be installed
--> Processing Dependency: python3 for package: azure-cli-2.0.77-1.el7.x86_64
--> Processing Dependency: libpython3.6m.so.1.0()(64bit) for package: azure-cli-2.0.77-1.el7.x86_64
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Package: azure-cli-2.0.77-1.el7.x86_64 (azure-cli)
Requires: python3
Error: Package: azure-cli-2.0.77-1.el7.x86_64 (azure-cli)
Requires: libpython3.6m.so.1.0()(64bit)
You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest

[captainbrown]

Redhat 8 doesn't seem to resolve this issue either, thanks to the same issue I found here: https://github.com/microsoft/azure-pipelines-agent/issues/2349

We also get:

No usable version of the libssl was found

So, I suppose Redhat is just unsupported for now?

[yonzhan]

@fengzhou-msft please take a look.

[fengzhou-msft]

@captainbrown 2.0.77 should work with RHEL 7.7 and 8. If you're on lower version RHEL, after installing Python 3 which you already did, you can download azure-cli package, and install without dependency.

$ sudo yum install yum-utils
$ sudo yumdownloader azure-cli
$ sudo rpm -ivh --nodeps azure-cli-2.0.77-1.el7.x86_64.rpm

[yonzhan]

Can we close this issue?

[captainbrown]

It doesn't seem that my method of installing python3 on RHEL 7 is effective. This is on RHEL 7.7 after installing rh-python36 and running your suggested commands.

$ az --help
/bin/az: line 2: python3: command not found

Unfortunately, I am yet to see how to successfully install Python3 on Redhat 7. Should the commands you posted work on RHEL 8?

[captainbrown]

This issue seems to be resolved for RHEL7 for the latest version of Azure CLI. azure-cli.x86_64 0:2.0.77-1.el7

[pmozbert]

amazing how MSFT keeps closing these tickets as resolved, when they are not resolved.

[fengzhou-msft]

amazing how MSFT keeps closing these tickets as resolved, when they are not resolved.

This issue is closed by the submitter.

Please try with the latest azure-cli version, if your system is not on the tested list, please check our troubleshooting doc for workaround.

Feel free to submit a new issue if they do not work for you.

[amchaney]

Had to do this:

$ sudo yumdownloader azure-cli
$ sudo rpm -ivh --nodeps azure-cli-2.0.77-1.el7.x86_64.rpm

on Amazon Linux 2 to install since I kept getting an error about a python3 library that couldn't be loaded (even though python 3 was installed).

[jatinmaya]

sudo yumdownloader azure-cli
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, langpacks
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
azure-cli-2.14.0-1.el7.x86_64.rpm

sudo rpm -ivh --nodeps azure-cli-2.14.0-1.el7.x86_64.rpm

az version
{
"azure-cli": "2.13.0",
"azure-cli-core": "2.13.0",
"azure-cli-telemetry": "1.0.6",
"extensions": {}
}

I am still in version 2.13 @ fengzhou-msft could you please explain this?