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I'm trying to get RabbitMQ setup, but something funky is going on with my dependencies. I'm running a Debian 7.1 that will be used as a server, hence has no desktop environment. I try to install rabbitmq-server using aptitude:

$ apt-get install rabbitmq-server 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree 
Reading state information... Done
Package rabbitmq-server is not available, but is referred to by another package. 
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only available from another source.
E: Package 'rabbitmq-server' has no installation candidate

Getting the .deb file from the RabbitMQ site yields the following dependency error:

$ dpkg -i rabbitmq-server_3.1.3-1_all.deb
Selecting previously unselected package rabbitmq-server.
(Reading database ... 31422 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking rabbitmq-server (from rabbitmq-server_3.1.3-1_all.deb) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prvent configuration of rabbitmq-server:
 rabbitmq-server depends on erlang-nox (>= 1:12.b.3) | esl-erlang; however:
  Package erlang-nox is not installed.
  Package esl-erlang is not installed.

Trying to install erlang-nox by itself yields similar results:

$ apt-get install erlang-nox
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree 
Reading state information... Done
Package erlang-nox is not available, but is referred to by another package. 
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only available from another source.
E: Package 'erlang-nox' has no installation candidate

My sources list is the following:

$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list
...
deb http://security.debian.org wheezy/updates main contrib
deb-src http://security.debian.org wheezy/updates main contrib
#deb http://www.rabbitmq.com/debian testing main

The last line was added after I failed to install rabbiqmq-server through the above procedures, but did not work either.

I tried installing erlang manually (compiling and using make install), but rabbitmq still complained about it and would not install.

Any pointers as to what could possibly be wrong here?

user991710
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Your sources.list is missing the main Debian repository. Add this line to /etc/apt/sources.list and try installing rabbitmq-server again:

deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free

As you can see here, the rabbitmq-server is indeed in the main debian repository, so after adding the line above you should be able to install it with

sudo apt-get install rabbitmq-server

Just make sure to choose a debian mirror that is close to you and edit the deb line accordingly.

terdon
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  • That worked. I should've picked up on that, but how is the main depository not included after a clean OS Install? Perhaps it was excluded when I unchecked the Desktop environment, but still pretty weird. Thank you, and sorry for getting back to you so late. – user991710 Jul 08 '13 at 19:33
  • @user991710 no idea, it is strange, maybe a change you made at some point? – terdon Jul 08 '13 at 19:41