Unable to Upgrade from Harvest 1.2.2 to 1.3 (VA)

F_SCHUBERT — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 16:11:35 GMT

Hello, I have a debian based Harvest installation 1.2.2 which I want to update but during SW prerequisite installation it complains about it.

# sudo apt-get -y install unzip perl libjson-perl libwww-perl \
> libxml-parser-perl liblwp-protocol-https-perl \
> libexcel-writer-xlsx-perl
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package libexcel-writer-xlsx-perl 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 'libexcel-writer-xlsx-perl' has no installation candidate

Are there additional sources needed?

Re: Unable to Upgrade from Harvest 1.2.2 to 1.3 (VA)

F_SCHUBERT — Tue, 03 Jan 2017 16:01:40 GMT

Got it working.

Cause: I think it was caused by trying to install netapp-harvest before installing the prerequisite filesets.

The fileset for perl were downlevel but could not be updated because of the netapp-harvest program was locking it out.

Solution:

Soved it by uninstall netapp-harvest fileset. (make a backup of netapp-harvest.conf before!!!)

apt-get remove netapp-harvest

Then

sudo apt-get -y install unzip perl libjson-perl libwww-perl \
> libxml-parser-perl liblwp-protocol-https-perl \
> libexcel-writer-xlsx-perl

Then, reinstall netapp-harvest.

Re: Unable to Upgrade from Harvest 1.2.2 to 1.3 (VA)

madden — Wed, 04 Jan 2017 13:30:45 GMT

Hi @F_SCHUBERT,

Glad you got it working!

dpkg doesn't pull in dependencies automatically so you either need to meet them before you start, or run 'apt-get -f install' after to get dependencies resolved.

Here is an example of installing Harvest without having the pre-requisites yet and then using apt-get to install them afterwords:

root@0b853e04eafc:/# dpkg -i netapp-harvest_1.3_all.deb
Selecting previously unselected package netapp-harvest.
(Reading database ... 8052 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack netapp-harvest_1.3_all.deb ...
### Creating netapp-harvest group ... OK
### Creating netapp-harvest user ... OK
Unpacking netapp-harvest (1.3) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of netapp-harvest:
 netapp-harvest depends on perl (>= 5.10); however:
  Package perl is not installed.
 netapp-harvest depends on libjson-perl; however:
  Package libjson-perl is not installed.
 netapp-harvest depends on libwww-perl; however:
  Package libwww-perl is not installed.
 netapp-harvest depends on libxml-parser-perl; however:
  Package libxml-parser-perl is not installed.
 netapp-harvest depends on liblwp-protocol-https-perl; however:
  Package liblwp-protocol-https-perl is not installed.
 netapp-harvest depends on libexcel-writer-xlsx-perl; however:
  Package libexcel-writer-xlsx-perl is not installed.

dpkg: error processing package netapp-harvest (--install):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Processing triggers for systemd (215-17+deb8u5) ...
Processing triggers for systemd (215-17+deb8u5) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 netapp-harvest

 
 root@0b853e04eafc:/# apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  libalgorithm-c3-perl libarchive-extract-perl libarchive-zip-perl libauthen-sasl-perl libcgi-fast-perl libcgi-pm-perl libclass-c3-perl libclass-c3-xs-perl libcommon-sense-perl
  libcpan-meta-perl libdata-optlist-perl libdata-section-perl libencode-locale-perl libexcel-writer-xlsx-perl libexpat1 libfcgi-perl libfile-listing-perl libfont-afm-perl libgdbm3
  libhtml-form-perl libhtml-format-perl libhtml-parser-perl libhtml-tagset-perl libhtml-tree-perl libhttp-cookies-perl libhttp-daemon-perl libhttp-date-perl libhttp-message-perl
  libhttp-negotiate-perl libio-html-perl libio-socket-ssl-perl libjson-perl libjson-xs-perl liblog-message-perl liblog-message-simple-perl liblwp-mediatypes-perl
  liblwp-protocol-https-perl libmailtools-perl libmodule-build-perl libmodule-pluggable-perl libmodule-signature-perl libmro-compat-perl libnet-http-perl libnet-smtp-ssl-perl
  libnet-ssleay-perl libpackage-constants-perl libparams-util-perl libpod-latex-perl libpod-readme-perl libregexp-common-perl libsoftware-license-perl libsub-exporter-perl
  libsub-install-perl libterm-ui-perl libtext-soundex-perl libtext-template-perl libtimedate-perl liburi-perl libwww-perl libwww-robotrules-perl libxml-parser-perl perl perl-modules
  rename
Suggested packages:
  libdigest-hmac-perl libgssapi-perl libdata-dump-perl libcrypt-ssleay-perl libmime-base64-perl libauthen-ntlm-perl perl-doc libterm-readline-gnu-perl libterm-readline-perl-perl make
  libb-lint-perl libcpanplus-dist-build-perl libcpanplus-perl libfile-checktree-perl libobject-accessor-perl
Recommended packages:
  libarchive-tar-perl
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libalgorithm-c3-perl libarchive-extract-perl libarchive-zip-perl libauthen-sasl-perl libcgi-fast-perl libcgi-pm-perl libclass-c3-perl libclass-c3-xs-perl libcommon-sense-perl
  libcpan-meta-perl libdata-optlist-perl libdata-section-perl libencode-locale-perl libexcel-writer-xlsx-perl libexpat1 libfcgi-perl libfile-listing-perl libfont-afm-perl libgdbm3
  libhtml-form-perl libhtml-format-perl libhtml-parser-perl libhtml-tagset-perl libhtml-tree-perl libhttp-cookies-perl libhttp-daemon-perl libhttp-date-perl libhttp-message-perl
  libhttp-negotiate-perl libio-html-perl libio-socket-ssl-perl libjson-perl libjson-xs-perl liblog-message-perl liblog-message-simple-perl liblwp-mediatypes-perl
  liblwp-protocol-https-perl libmailtools-perl libmodule-build-perl libmodule-pluggable-perl libmodule-signature-perl libmro-compat-perl libnet-http-perl libnet-smtp-ssl-perl
  libnet-ssleay-perl libpackage-constants-perl libparams-util-perl libpod-latex-perl libpod-readme-perl libregexp-common-perl libsoftware-license-perl libsub-exporter-perl
  libsub-install-perl libterm-ui-perl libtext-soundex-perl libtext-template-perl libtimedate-perl liburi-perl libwww-perl libwww-robotrules-perl libxml-parser-perl perl perl-modules
  rename
0 upgraded, 64 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 9322 kB of archives.
After this operation, 46.4 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y

Cheers,
Chris Madden

Solution Architect - 3rd Platform - Systems Engineering NetApp EMEA (and author of Harvest)

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