title: Installing multiple packages via Vagrant + Chef
body: <p>I've just discovered Vagrant + Chef and I'm trying to create a simple recipe to install multiple packages on the node. I thought something like this could work (I'm completely new tu ruby):</p>
  
  <pre><code># (From cookbooks/MY_COOCKBOOK/recipes/default.rb)
  # Install required packages
  %w{build-essential libncurses5-dev openssl libssl-dev}.each do |pkg|
    package pkg do
      action :install
    end
  end
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But this fails with the following error:</p>
  
  <pre><code>[default] [Thu, 17 Mar 2011 06:24:27 -0700] INFO: Installing package[libssl-dev] version 0.9.8k-7ubuntu8.5
  : stdout
  [default] /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/bin/../lib/chef/mixin/command.rb:184:in `handle_command_failures': stderr
  [default] : : stderr
  [default] apt-get -q -y install libssl-dev=0.9.8k-7ubuntu8.5 returned 100, expected 0: stderr
  [default]  (: stderr
  [default] Chef::Exceptions::Exec: stderr
  [default] )
  : stderr
  [default]   from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/bin/../lib/chef/mixin/command.rb:131:in `run_command'
      from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/bin/../lib/chef/mixin/command.rb:199:in `run_command_with_systems_locale'
      from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/bin/../lib/chef/provider/package/apt.rb:68:in `install_package'
      from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/bin/../lib/chef/provider/package.rb:60:in `action_install'
  [...]
  
  : stderr
  [default] [Thu, 17 Mar 2011 06:24:34 -0700] ERROR: package[libssl-dev] (/tmp/vagrant-chef/cookbooks-0/erlang-src/recipes/default.rb:22:in `from_file') had an error:
  apt-get -q -y install libssl-dev=0.9.8k-7ubuntu8.5 returned 100, expected 0
  /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/bin/../lib/chef/mixin/command.rb:184:in `handle_command_failures'
  /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/bin/../lib/chef/mixin/command.rb:131:in `run_command'
  /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/bin/../lib/chef/mixin/command.rb:199:in `run_command_with_systems_locale'
  /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/bin/../lib/chef/provider/package/apt.rb:68:in `install_package'
  /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.12/bin/../lib/chef/provider/package.rb:60:in `action_install'
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I've the impression I'm missing something basic here...</p>