Could not open library 'libarchive.so'

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When trying to fire up this cookbook, along with the kafka one using a wrapper cookbook I'm getting the following error in chef kitchen...

         System Info:
          ------------
          chef_version=14.4.56
          platform=centos
          platform_version=7.5.1804
          ruby=ruby 2.5.1p57 (2018-03-29 revision 63029) [x86_64-linux]
          program_name=/bin/chef-client
          executable=/opt/chef/bin/chef-client


          Running handlers:
       [2019-05-28T12:45:05+00:00] ERROR: Running exception handlers
       [2019-05-28T12:45:05+00:00] ERROR: Running exception handlers
             Running handlers complete
       [2019-05-28T12:45:05+00:00] ERROR: Exception handlers complete
       [2019-05-28T12:45:05+00:00] ERROR: Exception handlers complete
             Chef Client failed. 58 resources updated in 14 minutes 43 seconds
       [2019-05-28T12:45:05+00:00] FATAL: Stacktrace dumped to /tmp/kitchen/cache/chef-stacktrace.out
       [2019-05-28T12:45:05+00:00] FATAL: Stacktrace dumped to /tmp/kitchen/cache/chef-stacktrace.out
       [2019-05-28T12:45:05+00:00] FATAL: Please provide the contents of the stacktrace.out file if you file a bug report
       [2019-05-28T12:45:05+00:00] FATAL: Please provide the contents of the stacktrace.out file if you file a bug report
       [2019-05-28T12:45:05+00:00] FATAL: Chef::Exceptions::MultipleFailures: Multiple failures occurred:
       * LoadError occurred in chef run: Could not open library 'archive': archive: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory.
       Could not open library 'libarchive.so': /lib64/liblzma.so.5: version `XZ_5.2' not found (required by /opt/chef/embedded/lib/libarchive.so).
       Could not open library 'libarchive.so.2': libarchive.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

any ideas what might be causing that? I'll keep digging in the meantime.