Chef Infra Client native installer troubleshooting

Conflicts with Chef Workstation

If the Chef Workstation is already on your system, the installation process fails with a conflict.

The installer returns the following error on Debian-based systems:

Selecting previously unselected package chef-infra-client.
dpkg: regarding chef-infra-client-19.1.rc2_amd64.deb containing chef-infra-client:
 chef-infra-client conflicts with chef-workstation
  chef-workstation (version 0.4.2-1) is present and installed.

dpkg: error processing archive chef-infra-client-19.1.rc2_amd64.deb (--install):
 conflicting packages - not installing chef-infra-client
Errors were encountered while processing:
 chef-infra-client-19.1.rc2_amd64.deb

The installer returns the following error on RPM-based systems:

Error:
 Problem: package chef-infra-client-19.0.54-1.amzn2023.x86_64 from @System conflicts with chef-workstation provided by chef-workstation-25.1.1074-1.amazon2023.x86_64 from @commandline
  - conflicting requests
  - problem with installed package chef-infra-client-19.0.54-1.amzn2023.x86_64
(try to add '--allowerasing' to command line to replace conflicting packages or '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable packages)

To resolve the error:

Error: Invalid license

The installation process requires a valid Progress Chef License key.

The installer returns the following error if you don’t add a valid license:

Validating chef-client license with https://services.chef.io
Invalid License Key: ssfree-833b40cf-336a-42ee-b71d-f14a0
chef-client installation failed. Error: invalid license
warning: %post(chef-infra-client-19.1.0-1.amzn2.x86_64) scriptlet failed, exit status 1

Error in POSTIN scriptlet in rpm package chef-infra-client
  Verifying        : chef-infra-client-19.1.0-1.amzn2.x86_64

To resolve this error:

Add a valid Progress Chef License key to your machine’s environment:
```
export CHEF_LICENSE_KEY=<LICENSE_KEY>
```

Install Chef Infra Client.

On Debian-based distributions:

sudo -E dpkg -i chef-infra-client-19.1.rc2_amd64.deb

On RPM-based distributions, use the dnf reinstall command:

sudo -E dnf reinstall chef-infra-client-19.1.rc2.amzn2.x86_64.rpm