Deployment: 'adduser: The group `admin' does not exist.'

[roryf]

I'm trying to install Barkeep on a new Ubuntu Rackspace VM. The vm was created from the default Rackspace Ubuntu 10.04 image, which I presume is the same as a default Ubuntu install.

The only actions I did before attempting to deploy barkeep:

• Ran the following commands:

  aptitude update
  aptitude safe-upgrade
  aptitude full-upgrade

• Installed build-essentials via apt-get install build-essential

Output from deployment:

(in /Users/rory/Development/barkeep)
Loading Fezzik tasks from config/tasks
Targeting hosts:
    user@myhost
Staging project in /tmp/barkeep.
Setting up servers.
Creating barkeep user.
adduser: The group `admin' does not exist.
[fail]

Running addgroup admin on the vm got passed this particular issue.

[cespare]

Ubuntu docs seem to indicate that the admin user should exist. So I suspect that the Rackspace image isn't quite stock Ubuntu. More evidence:

http://fingerskier.blogspot.com/2010/12/rackspace-ubuntu.html

We could, of course, modify our deploy to create the user if it doesn't exist pretty easily.

[mbrochh]

Same happens when trying to deploy to a Ubuntu 12.10 Linode. It seems as if on 10.04 the admin group does indeed already exist.

[raelgc]

admin group was replaced on Ubuntu by sudo

[cespare]

Hey guys, the 'ubuntu-precise' branch has this change and a few others for installing to precise.

We'll probably merge that to master at some point. (We're also investigating packaging options to make installation a lot simpler. See the mailing list for more details.)

[epontes]

Now Ubuntu is using sudo