Getting Started: "tkn task start hello --dry-run" fails with "Error: task name hello does not exist in namespace default"

[florath]

Expected Behavior

tkn task start hello --dry-run

should behave as described and output the taskrun resource description

Actual Behavior

tkn task start hello --dry-run

logs

Error: task name hello does not exist in namespace default

Steps to Reproduce the Problem

1. Use the provided ppa for Ubuntu to install the tkn binary
2. Install an up to date version of the tekton pipeline

Additional Info

It looks that the binary in the ppa is (very) old and does not work with current tekton pipelines.

# tkn version
Client version: 2020-04-01T10:57:38Z
Pipeline version: unknown

After using an up-to date tkn binary, everything works fine

# tkn version
Client version: 0.13.1
Pipeline version: v0.17.3

Suggestion: Either update the version in the ppa or remove the section in flavor of using the package from github.

[AlanGreene]

tkn 0.13.1 does appear to be available in the ppa

Tested on Ubuntu 20.04 (Focal Fossa)

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:tektoncd/cli
...
$ sudo apt-get update
...
$ sudo apt-get install tektoncd-cli
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  tektoncd-cli
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded.
Need to get 8952 kB of archives.
After this operation, 42.4 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://ppa.launchpad.net/tektoncd/cli/ubuntu focal/main amd64 tektoncd-cli amd64 0.13.1-0 [8952 kB]
...

However following the instructions on https://tekton.dev/docs/getting-started/ I get 0.8.0
Updating the instructions to use focal instead of eoan yields 0.13.1.

-echo "deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/tektoncd/cli/ubuntu eoan main"|sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/tektoncd-ubuntu-cli.list
+echo "deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/tektoncd/cli/ubuntu focal main"|sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/tektoncd-ubuntu-cli.list

https://github.com/tektoncd/website/blob/master/content/en/docs/Getting%20Started/_index.md#set-up-the-cli

Is this expected? Do we only ship newer tkn releases for focal or newer? @chmouel @piyush-garg

[chmouel]

We only use what PPA gives us, I am not really sure how to make PPA generating for multiple distribution, so I guess the packages will only targets the latest LTS (which is focal)

I'll see if we can do some documentation update,

[chmouel]

Maybe we should use https://build.opensuse.org/ in the future, which seems more maintained and featurefull than launchpad.

[afrittoli]

So, is the issue only related to the version of tkn? Does it work fine with the latest tkn?

[chmouel]

@afrittoli yes should be fixed using the version from focal,

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