ZOPEN package manager Installation failure

[Monish00006]

Description

Hi ,
We tried quick install and manual installation, and both are failing with the below error. we are running with z/OS 3.1.

BPXROOT@dcuf ~ > cd /usr/local/zopen                                            
BPXROOT@dcuf /usr/local/zopen > ls                                              
meta-new_installer.20251030_160947.zos.pax.Z                                    
<ar -rf meta-new_installer.20251030_160947.zos.pax.Z                            
bash: par: command not found                                                    
<ax -rf meta-new_installer.20251030_160947.zos.pax.Z                            
BPXROOT@dcuf /usr/local/zopen > ls                                              
meta-new_installer                                                              
meta-new_installer.20251030_160947.zos.pax.Z                                    
BPXROOT@dcuf /usr/local/zopen > cd meta-new_installer                           
BPXROOT@dcuf /usr/local/zopen/meta-new_installer > . ./.env                     
Setting up meta...                                                              
Setup completed.                                                                
BPXROOT@dcuf /usr/local/zopen/meta-new_installer > zopen init                   
Initializing zopen framework                                                    
- Enter fully-qualified path to your zopen root directory (default: /u/sys993/zo
pen):                                                                           
/usr/local/zopen                                                                
Do you want to contribute anonymous usage statistics (https://zopencommunity.git
hub.io/meta/#/Guides/Analytics) to help improve zopen community? [y/n]          
hub.io/meta/#/Guides/Analytics) to help improve zopen community? [y/n]          
y                                                                               
- Binaries will be symlinked under "/usr/local/zopen/usr/local/bin". Libraries w
ill be symlinked under "/usr/local/zopen/usr/lib"                               
- Packages will be installed and maintained under the directory '/usr/local/zope
n/'.                                                                            
- Collecting usage statistics: true                                             
Do you want to continue? [y/n]                                                  
y                                                                               
Should zopen tools default to overriding the z/OS /bin tools (e.g. man, find, gr
ep)? [y/n]                                                                      
y                                                                               
Generating File System                                                          
- Setting certificate environment variable                                      
- Root FS available at /usr/local/zopen                                         
Installing zopen pre-requisites                                                 
/usr/local/zopen/meta-new_installer/packages/curl-8.10.1.20241001_214340.zos.pax
.Z                                                                              
/usr/local/zopen/meta-new_installer/packages/jq-1.6.20241001_204116.zos.pax.Z   
/usr/local/zopen/meta-new_installer/packages/pinentry-1.3.1.20250131_041514.zos.
/usr/local/zopen/meta-new_installer/packages/pinentry-1.3.1.20250131_041514.zos.
pax.Z                                                                           
/usr/local/zopen/meta-new_installer/packages/gnupg-2.5.5.20250407_125451.zos.pax
.Z                                                                              
Setting up curl...                                                              
Setup completed.                                                                
Setting up jq...                                                                
Setup completed.                                                                
Setting up pinentry...                                                          
Setup completed.                                                                
Setting up gnupg...                                                             
Replacing hardcoded paths in /usr/local/zopen/boot/gnupg-2.5.5...               
Setup completed.                                                                
- Sourcing environment                                                          
- Configured zopen to use stable releaseline packages                           
Generating global configuration                                                 
Generating zopen-config                                                         
- Created config in /usr/local/zopen/etc/zopen-config                           
- zopen-config setup complete                                                   
Updating CA Certificate                                                         
Updating CA Certificate                                                         
Getting latest CA Certificate                                                   
Re-creating /usr/local/zopen/etc/pki/tls/certs/cacert.pem                       
- CA Certificate updated                                                        
- Installing/updating bootstrapped curl, jq, gpg, pinentry and meta to install u
pdated versions (if available)                                                  
***ERROR: Failed to obtain json cache timestamp from http://raw.githubuserconten
t.com/zopencommunity/meta/main/docs/api/zopen_releases.json.                    
***ERROR: Unable to install curl, jq, gpg, pinentry and/or meta; see previous er
rors and retry the initilisation using the '--re-init' parameter   

Severity

Sev 3 - Medium

Expected Behavior

No errors during installation.

Actual Behavior

Error during installation.

***ERROR: Failed to obtain json cache timestamp from http://raw.githubuserconten
t.com/zopencommunity/meta/main/docs/api/zopen_releases.json.                    
***ERROR: Unable to install curl, jq, gpg, pinentry and/or meta; see previous er
rors and retry the initilisation using the '--re-init' parameter 

z/OS Version

3.1

zopen package manager version

new installation

Additional Information (Optional)

No response

Network or Security Configuration (Optional)

No response

[Monish00006]

we followed the instructions from the below URL.

https://zopen.community/#/Guides/QuickStart.md

[IgorTodorovskiIBM]

It's possible that a firewall may be blocking access to http://raw.githubusercontent.com

I would suggest you set tracing to on:

set -x
zopen init

Then you can see the command that is failing with curl

[DevonianTeuchter]

we followed the instructions from the below URL.

https://zopen.community/#/Guides/QuickStart.md

The pax file you are using is the Development release meta-new_installer.20251030_160947.zos.pax.Z rather than the Stable meta package - not the root cause of your issue but something to bear in mind as you use it.

As Igor indicates, this might be a firewall issue. You should have a bootstrapped curl on the system at /usr/local/zopen/boot/curl-v.r.m after your initial attempt to install. If so, you can enable that for your environment by issuing . .env [note this is "dot space dotenv"] from within the curl-v.r.m directory; this should then make curl available on your path so you can then run curl -ILs http://raw.githubusercontent.com/zopencommunity/meta/main/docs/api/zopen_releases.json . This should complete with a 200 response code; any errors and there's something up!

Other thing to note is that you're installing to /usr/local/zopen - do you have permission to write there? [Hopefully a permission error would surface with a meaningful message].

[sunil390]

Igor/Devonian, Yes we confirm it's blocked by firewall rules. Is there an offline alternative to install this ?

[sunil390]

Is it possible to change http to https in the zopeninstaller script ?

from
http://raw.githubusercontent.com/zopencommunity/meta/main/docs/api/zopen_releases.json.
to
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zopencommunity/meta/main/docs/api/zopen_releases.json.

The IT teams do not permit http traffic and hence this request.

[sunil390]

Devonian, Switched to the stable version from https://github.com/zopencommunity/metaport/releases
executed curl -o meta-main.20251021_153935.zos.pax.Z -L https://github.com/zopencommunity/metaport/releases/download/STABLE_metaport_3828/meta-main.20251021_153935.zos.pax.Z && pax -rf meta-main.20251021_153935.zos.pax.Z && cd meta-main && . ./.env

This time installation is successful! Thanks for the hint.
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