Default recipe wants `--force-yes` to install 1.2.9 about cassandra-chef-cookbook

[michaelklishin]

This is not a cookbook issue. apt fails to downgrade the package. There can be numerous issues causing this. Try installing it manually to see more info.

[michaelklishin]

Googling around a bit suggests that the most common issue is apt index being out of date. There is an apt cookbook (e.g. in travis-cookbooks) that runs apt-get update and should be one of the first on run list.

Alternatively, the package resource has an attribute, options, that is passed to apt as is. So if you really want
to use --force-yes, you can add it in your copy of the cookbook. This is a pretty fragile workaround, though.

[hayesmp]

Are there any guides to getting this setup beyond the recipe? I am completely lost. I'm trying to get a basic local instance up and running to use with Usergrid.