Installation fails on Debian 7 due to missing easy_install

[wwentland]

The bootstrap script currently runs into the following error when installing salt on Debian 7 in Vagrant:

This happens when passing -P to enable pip installs, which was necessary to be able to install a, yet unpacked, python-requests version. It is, apparently, not really necessary to install that particular version (cf. 7fc5adf) which was introduced earlier in 1d09eae to "Make sure that a recent enough requests package is installed in Debian/Ubuntu".

[…]
Setting up python-yaml (3.10-4+deb7u1) ...
Setting up rsync (3.0.9-4) ...
update-rc.d: using dependency based boot sequencing
Setting up salt-common (2014.7.5+ds-1~bpo70+1) ...
Setting up salt-master (2014.7.5+ds-1~bpo70+1) ...

Configuration file `/etc/salt/master'
 ==> File on system created by you or by a script.
 ==> File also in package provided by package maintainer.
 ==> Using current old file as you requested.
Starting salt master control daemon: salt-master.
Setting up salt-minion (2014.7.5+ds-1~bpo70+1) ...

Configuration file `/etc/salt/minion'
 ==> File on system created by you or by a script.
 ==> File also in package provided by package maintainer.
 ==> Using current old file as you requested.
Starting salt minion control daemon: salt-minion.
Processing triggers for python-support ...
sh: 2443: easy_install: not found
 * ERROR: Failed to run install_debian_7_stable()!!!


Stderr from the command:

Luckily one doesn't actually have to pass -P these days anymore, so that an installation is still possible. I'd recommend fixing the script in such a way that python-setuptools is installed before one tries to use easy_install. That being said: Just because pip doesn't work as expected on Squeeze, doesn't necessarily mean that one should continue using easy_install on Wheezy, Jessie or later releases.

[s0undt3ch]

Thanks for reporting this.

[wwentland]

@s0undt3ch Thanks for fixing it and your ongoing work in general.

[s0undt3ch]

Anytime!