E: Unable to locate package apache2

[f97-backup]

I get this bug when installing, does anyone know why? Thanks :)))

[luizbills]

Try to install again. I did a test now and it worked fine for me.

[mrchrisadams]

Hi there,

I'm getting this error too, and I think you can reproduce the issue by trying to spin up an environment at the link below

https://gitpod.io/#https://github.com/thegreenwebfoundation/wp-green-checker/compare/ca-gitpod-2

I see two issues - one is minor (which I can make a PR for), and the other is more involved and related to apache2 being missing. At least that's what this line suggests to me:

E: Unable to locate package apache2

The full logs are below:

Connecting to workspace logs...
building base image

initializing base image context
running base image build
Step 1/11 : FROM gitpod/workspace-mysql
latest: Pulling from gitpod/workspace-mysql
Digest: sha256:672678bd97bd843c810fdbf04f0786483a8742d5a7716985fa7c3e74fe6d1479
Status: Image is up to date for gitpod/workspace-mysql:latest
 ---> d8aa3079547c
Step 2/11 : ENV PHP_VERSION="7.4"
 ---> Using cache
 ---> 9c30775c3857
Step 3/11 : ENV APACHE_DOCROOT="public_html"
 ---> Using cache
 ---> ec1b0be6a5b2
Step 4/11 : USER gitpod
 ---> Using cache
 ---> d23bba622706
Step 5/11 : ADD https://api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.1/salt?rnd=152634 /dev/null


 ---> d3e3f62d07b5
Step 6/11 : RUN git clone https://github.com/luizbills/gitpod-wordpress $HOME/gitpod-wordpress &&     cat $HOME/gitpod-wordpress/conf/.bashrc.sh >> $HOME/.bashrc &&     . $HOME/.bashrc &&     bash -c ". .nvm/nvm.sh && nvm install --lts"
 ---> Running in 601d0b880447
Cloning into '/home/gitpod/gitpod-wordpress'...
Installing latest LTS version.
Downloading and installing node v14.18.1...
Downloading https://nodejs.org/dist/v14.18.1/node-v14.18.1-linux-x64.tar.xz...
######################################################################## 100.0%
Computing checksum with sha256sum
Checksums matched!
Now using node v14.18.1 (npm v6.14.15)
 ---> 321734f4b228
Step 7/11 : USER root
 ---> Running in f7624f1c0c62
 ---> 124f82e3f533
Step 8/11 : ARG DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
 ---> Running in b6c74cd09d7b
 ---> e63aceba09fe
Step 9/11 : RUN go get github.com/mailhog/MailHog &&     go get github.com/mailhog/mhsendmail &&     cp $GOPATH/bin/MailHog /usr/local/bin/mailhog &&     cp $GOPATH/bin/mhsendmail /usr/local/bin/mhsendmail &&     ln $GOPATH/bin/mhsendmail /usr/sbin/sendmail &&     ln $GOPATH/bin/mhsendmail /usr/bin/mail &&    apt-get -y install apache2 &&     chown -R gitpod:gitpod /var/run/apache2 /var/lock/apache2 /var/log/apache2 &&     echo "include $HOME/gitpod-wordpress/conf/apache.conf" > /etc/apache2/apache2.conf &&     echo ". $HOME/gitpod-wordpress/conf/apache.env.sh" > /etc/apache2/envvars &&     apt-get -qy purge php* &&     add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php &&     apt-get update &&     apt-get -qy install         libapache2-mod-php         php${PHP_VERSION}         php${PHP_VERSION}-common         php${PHP_VERSION}-cli         php${PHP_VERSION}-mbstring         php${PHP_VERSION}-curl         php${PHP_VERSION}-gd         php${PHP_VERSION}-intl         php${PHP_VERSION}-mysql         php${PHP_VERSION}-xml         php${PHP_VERSION}-json         php${PHP_VERSION}-zip         php${PHP_VERSION}-soap         php${PHP_VERSION}-bcmath         php${PHP_VERSION}-opcache         php-xdebug &&     apt-get clean && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* /tmp/* &&     update-alternatives --set php /usr/bin/php${PHP_VERSION} &&     cat /home/gitpod/gitpod-wordpress/conf/php.ini >> /etc/php/${PHP_VERSION}/apache2/php.ini &&     a2dismod php* &&     a2dismod mpm_* &&     a2enmod mpm_prefork &&     a2enmod php${PHP_VERSION} &&     wget -q https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wp-cli/builds/gh-pages/phar/wp-cli.phar -O $HOME/wp-cli.phar &&     chmod +x $HOME/wp-cli.phar &&     mv $HOME/wp-cli.phar /usr/local/bin/wp &&     chown gitpod:gitpod /usr/local/bin/wp
 ---> Running in 6aabf1fbbf6f
go: downloading github.com/mailhog/MailHog v1.0.1
go: downloading github.com/mailhog/MailHog-Server v1.0.1
go: downloading github.com/gorilla/pat v1.0.1
go: downloading github.com/mailhog/MailHog-UI v1.0.1
go: downloading github.com/ian-kent/envconf v0.0.0-20141026121121-c19809918c02
go: downloading github.com/ian-kent/go-log v0.0.0-20160113211217-5731446c36ab
go: downloading github.com/mailhog/http v1.0.1
go: downloading github.com/mailhog/mhsendmail v0.2.0
go: downloading golang.org/x/crypto v0.0.0-20210921155107-089bfa567519
go: downloading github.com/mailhog/data v1.0.1
go: downloading github.com/mailhog/smtp v1.0.1
go: downloading github.com/gorilla/context v1.1.1
go: downloading github.com/mailhog/storage v1.0.1
go: downloading github.com/ian-kent/linkio v0.0.0-20170807205755-97566b872887
go: downloading github.com/ian-kent/goose v0.0.0-20141221090059-c3541ea826ad
go: downloading github.com/ogier/pflag v0.0.1
go: downloading github.com/t-k/fluent-logger-golang v1.0.0
go: downloading github.com/gorilla/mux v1.8.0
go: downloading github.com/gorilla/websocket v1.4.2
go: downloading github.com/tinylib/msgp v1.1.6
go: downloading gopkg.in/mgo.v2 v2.0.0-20190816093944-a6b53ec6cb22
go: downloading github.com/philhofer/fwd v1.1.1
go get: installing executables with 'go get' in module mode is deprecated.
        Use 'go install pkg@version' instead.
        For more information, see https://golang.org/doc/go-get-install-deprecation
        or run 'go help get' or 'go help install'.
go get: installing executables with 'go get' in module mode is deprecated.
        Use 'go install pkg@version' instead.
        For more information, see https://golang.org/doc/go-get-install-deprecation
        or run 'go help get' or 'go help install'.
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
E: Unable to locate package apache2


Error: build failed: cannot build base image: The command '/bin/sh -c go get github.com/mailhog/MailHog &&     go get github.com/mailhog/mhsendmail &&     cp $GOPATH/bin/MailHog /usr/local/bin/mailhog &&     cp $GOPATH/bin/mhsendmail /usr/local/bin/mhsendmail &&     ln $GOPATH/bin/mhsendmail /usr/sbin/sendmail &&     ln $GOPATH/bin/mhsendmail /usr/bin/mail &&    apt-get -y install apache2 &&     chown -R gitpod:gitpod /var/run/apache2 /var/lock/apache2 /var/log/apache2 &&     echo "include $HOME/gitpod-wordpress/conf/apache.conf" > /etc/apache2/apache2.conf &&     echo ". $HOME/gitpod-wordpress/conf/apache.env.sh" > /etc/apache2/envvars &&     apt-get -qy purge php* &&     add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php &&     apt-get update &&     apt-get -qy install         libapache2-mod-php         php${PHP_VERSION}         php${PHP_VERSION}-common         php${PHP_VERSION}-cli         php${PHP_VERSION}-mbstring         php${PHP_VERSION}-curl         php${PHP_VERSION}-gd         php${PHP_VERSION}-intl         php${PHP_VERSION}-mysql         php${PHP_VERSION}-xml         php${PHP_VERSION}-json         php${PHP_VERSION}-zip         php${PHP_VERSION}-soap         php${PHP_VERSION}-bcmath         php${PHP_VERSION}-opcache         php-xdebug &&     apt-get clean && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* /tmp/* &&     update-alternatives --set php /usr/bin/php${PHP_VERSION} &&     cat /home/gitpod/gitpod-wordpress/conf/php.ini >> /etc/php/${PHP_VERSION}/apache2/php.ini &&     a2dismod php* &&     a2dismod mpm_* &&     a2enmod mpm_prefork &&     a2enmod php${PHP_VERSION} &&     wget -q https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wp-cli/builds/gh-pages/phar/wp-cli.phar -O $HOME/wp-cli.phar &&     chmod +x $HOME/wp-cli.phar &&     mv $HOME/wp-cli.phar /usr/local/bin/wp &&     chown gitpod:gitpod /usr/local/bin/wp' returned a non-zero code: 100

Clues for a fix

I'm not sure but this might be related to changes upstream - if I clone the repo to my laptop locally and tru buiding from the docker file, I'm unable to install apache to there as well.

I can try buliding it locally like so:

docker build --no-cache -t debugging-local-image  -f ./.gitpod.dockerfile . 

And then when I run the tagged image like so:

docker run -it debugging-local-image /bin/bash

Attempts to install apache2 fail:

gitpod ~ $ apt install apache2
E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend - open (13: Permission denied)
E: Unable to acquire the dpkg frontend lock (/var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend), are you root?
gitpod ~ $ sudo apt install apache2
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package apache2
gitpod ~ $

I can run an sudo apt update which lets me start installing apache2, but then there's another problem:

gitpod ~ $ sudo apt update
Get:1 http://ppa.launchpad.net/git-core/ppa/ubuntu focal InRelease [23.8 kB]
Get:2 https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu focal InRelease [57.7 kB]
Get:3 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal InRelease [265 kB]
Get:4 https://apt.llvm.org/focal llvm-toolchain-focal InRelease [5,526 B]
Get:5 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-security InRelease [114 kB]
Get:6 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates InRelease [114 kB]
Get:7 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-backports InRelease [101 kB]
Get:8 http://ppa.launchpad.net/git-core/ppa/ubuntu focal/main amd64 Packages [3,165 B]
Get:9 https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu focal/stable amd64 Packages [12.5 kB]
Get:10 https://apt.llvm.org/focal llvm-toolchain-focal/main amd64 Packages [11.9 kB]
Get:11 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/universe amd64 Packages [11.3 MB]
Get:12 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-security/universe amd64 Packages [796 kB]
Get:13 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/multiverse amd64 Packages [177 kB]
Get:14 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/restricted amd64 Packages [33.4 kB]
Get:15 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/main amd64 Packages [1,275 kB]
Get:16 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates/universe amd64 Packages [1,084 kB]
Get:17 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates/main amd64 Packages [1,587 kB]
Get:18 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-security/restricted amd64 Packages [583 kB]
Get:19 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates/restricted amd64 Packages [637 kB]
Get:20 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates/multiverse amd64 Packages [33.4 kB]
Get:21 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-backports/universe amd64 Packages [6,310 B]
Get:22 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-backports/main amd64 Packages [2,668 B]
Get:23 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-security/main amd64 Packages [1,137 kB]
Get:24 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-security/multiverse amd64 Packages [30.1 kB]
Fetched 19.4 MB in 4s (4,529 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
119 packages can be upgraded. Run 'apt list --upgradable' to see them.
gitpod ~ $ DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive sudo apt install apache2 -yqq
The following additional packages will be installed:
  apache2-bin apache2-data apache2-utils libaprutil1-dbd-sqlite3 libaprutil1-ldap libjansson4 liblua5.2-0
Suggested packages:
  apache2-doc apache2-suexec-pristine | apache2-suexec-custom ufw
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  apache2 apache2-bin apache2-data apache2-utils libaprutil1-dbd-sqlite3 libaprutil1-ldap libjansson4 liblua5.2-0
0 upgraded, 8 newly installed, 0 to remove and 119 not upgraded.
Need to get 1,673 kB of archives.
After this operation, 7,456 kB of additional disk space will be used.
debconf: delaying package configuration, since apt-utils is not installed
Selecting previously unselected package libaprutil1-dbd-sqlite3:amd64.
(Reading database ... 33670 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../0-libaprutil1-dbd-sqlite3_1.6.1-4ubuntu2_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking libaprutil1-dbd-sqlite3:amd64 (1.6.1-4ubuntu2) ...
Selecting previously unselected package libaprutil1-ldap:amd64.
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Selecting previously unselected package libjansson4:amd64.
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Unpacking libjansson4:amd64 (2.12-1build1) ...
Selecting previously unselected package liblua5.2-0:amd64.
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Unpacking liblua5.2-0:amd64 (5.2.4-1.1build3) ...
Selecting previously unselected package apache2-bin.
Preparing to unpack .../4-apache2-bin_2.4.41-4ubuntu3.7_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking apache2-bin (2.4.41-4ubuntu3.7) ...
Selecting previously unselected package apache2-data.
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Selecting previously unselected package apache2-utils.
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Unpacking apache2-utils (2.4.41-4ubuntu3.7) ...
Selecting previously unselected package apache2.
Preparing to unpack .../7-apache2_2.4.41-4ubuntu3.7_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking apache2 (2.4.41-4ubuntu3.7) ...
Setting up libaprutil1-ldap:amd64 (1.6.1-4ubuntu2) ...
Setting up libaprutil1-dbd-sqlite3:amd64 (1.6.1-4ubuntu2) ...
Setting up libjansson4:amd64 (2.12-1build1) ...
Setting up liblua5.2-0:amd64 (5.2.4-1.1build3) ...
Setting up apache2-data (2.4.41-4ubuntu3.7) ...
Setting up apache2-utils (2.4.41-4ubuntu3.7) ...
Setting up apache2-bin (2.4.41-4ubuntu3.7) ...
Setting up apache2 (2.4.41-4ubuntu3.7) ...

Configuration file '/etc/apache2/apache2.conf'
 ==> File on system created by you or by a script.
 ==> File also in package provided by package maintainer.
   What would you like to do about it ?  Your options are:
    Y or I  : install the package maintainer's version
    N or O  : keep your currently-installed version
      D     : show the differences between the versions
      Z     : start a shell to examine the situation
 The default action is to keep your current version.
*** apache2.conf (Y/I/N/O/D/Z) [default=N] ?

Configuration file '/etc/apache2/envvars'
 ==> File on system created by you or by a script.
 ==> File also in package provided by package maintainer.
   What would you like to do about it ?  Your options are:
    Y or I  : install the package maintainer's version
    N or O  : keep your currently-installed version
      D     : show the differences between the versions
      Z     : start a shell to examine the situation
 The default action is to keep your current version.
*** envvars (Y/I/N/O/D/Z) [default=N] ?

sh: 1: /etc/apache2/envvars: gp: not found
ERROR: Module mpm_prefork is enabled - cannot proceed due to conflicts. It needs to be disabled first!
dpkg: error processing package apache2 (--configure):
 installed apache2 package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
Processing triggers for systemd (245.4-4ubuntu3.4) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.9.1-1) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.31-0ubuntu9.2) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 apache2
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
gitpod ~ $ exit

I'm not sure how to get around the prompts there, but this post makes me wonder if a change in the workspace image has impacted this repo.

https://community.gitpod.io/t/is-there-an-easy-way-to-create-wordpress-sites-from-gitpod/1072/6

[ulinaaron]

I've been having issues with this too. If I spin up this repo directly in GitPod (https://gitpod.io/#https://github.com/luizbills/gitpod-wordpress) it will install correctly without issue.

However if I try to copy the dockerfile or .gitpod.yml file into a theme or plugin I run into the apache2 cannot be installed issues.

[luizbills]

hey guys, I'm very busy at moment. As soon as possible I will try to work on a fix.

[f97-2308]

@ulinaaron, @mrchrisadams Sorry, I found a solution to this problem but I forgot this issue, If you used docker mysql tag is branch-pr-264, everything will okay.

# Gitpod docker image for WordPress | https://github.com/luizbills/gitpod-wordpress
# License: MIT (c) 2020 Luiz Paulo "Bills"
# Version: 0.8

FROM gitpod/workspace-mysql:branch-pr-264

I don't know what the problem is here, and hope luizbills will fix it soon.

[TeoTsiok]

Try again by using this command:
apt-get upgrade -y

[mrchrisadams]

For anyone following along, this issue here helps shed light on why this was happening, and points to a fix.

Basically workspace-mysql which I think this image was based on was originally based on workspace-full, which did include apache2, but a change was made to have workspace-mysql be based on workspace-base which did not have apache2 installed.

gitpod-io/workspace-images#675

This merged PR seems to suggest that it's resolved upstream now, and the workspace-mysql image once again includes apache2 because it's derived from workspace-full once more.

gitpod-io/workspace-images#677

I can try testing this out again later this week, but if anyone else would be up for testing before I get to it, I'd be grateful.

[luizbills]

I'm working in a rework using only the gitpod/workspace-base and changing mysql to mariadb.

[luizbills]

The dockerfile is not starting mariadb correctly. I don't know much about mysql/mariadb or docker. Help would be appreciated.
https://github.com/luizbills/gitpod-wordpress/blob/next/.gitpod.dockerfile#L65-L67
https://github.com/luizbills/gitpod-wordpress/blob/next/conf/.bashrc.sh#L3-L14
https://github.com/luizbills/gitpod-wordpress/blob/next/conf/mysql.cnf