<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi All<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">has anyone been able to install syslog-ng 3.8 successfully on ubuntu 16.04 ?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I’m using the link from the mailing list a few months ago but again no luck - <a href="http://lists.balabit.hu/pipermail/syslog-ng/2016-August/023150.html" class="">http://lists.balabit.hu/pipermail/syslog-ng/2016-August/023150.html</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">no matter what packages i try to install it just won’t work</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">any ideas?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">root@syslog:~# apt-get install syslog-ng</div><div class="">Reading package lists... Done</div><div class="">Building dependency tree </div><div class="">Reading state information... Done</div><div class="">Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have</div><div class="">requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable</div><div class="">distribution that some required packages have not yet been created</div><div class="">or been moved out of Incoming.</div><div class="">The following information may help to resolve the situation:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The following packages have unmet dependencies:</div><div class=""> syslog-ng : Depends: syslog-ng-core (>= 3.8.1) but it is not going to be installed</div><div class=""> Depends: syslog-ng-mod-sql but it is not going to be installed</div><div class=""> Depends: syslog-ng-mod-mongodb but it is not going to be installed</div><div class=""> Depends: syslog-ng-mod-json but it is not going to be installed</div><div class=""> Recommends: syslog-ng-mod-journal but it is not going to be installed</div><div class=""> Recommends: syslog-ng-mod-smtp but it is not going to be installed</div><div class=""> Recommends: syslog-ng-mod-amqp but it is not going to be installed</div><div class=""> Recommends: syslog-ng-mod-geoip but it is not going to be installed</div><div class=""> Recommends: syslog-ng-mod-redis but it is not going to be installed</div><div class=""> Recommends: syslog-ng-mod-stomp but it is not going to be installed</div><div class=""> Recommends: syslog-ng-mod-riemann but it is not going to be installed</div><div class=""> Recommends: syslog-ng-mod-graphite but it is not going to be installed</div><div class=""> Recommends: syslog-ng-mod-python but it is not going to be installed</div><div class=""> Recommends: syslog-ng-mod-java but it is not going to be installed</div><div class=""> Recommends: syslog-ng-mod-java-common-lib but it is not going to be installed</div><div class=""> Recommends: syslog-ng-mod-elastic but it is not going to be installed</div><div class=""> Recommends: syslog-ng-mod-hdfs but it is not going to be installed</div><div class=""> Recommends: syslog-ng-mod-kafka but it is not going to be installed</div><div class=""> Recommends: syslog-ng-mod-http but it is not going to be installed</div><div class=""> Recommends: syslog-ng-mod-curl but it is not going to be installed</div><div class=""> Recommends: syslog-ng-mod-kvformat but it is not going to be installed</div><div class=""> Recommends: syslog-ng-mod-add-contextual-data but it is not going to be installed</div><div class="">E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.</div><div class="">root@syslog:~# apt-get install syslog-ng-core</div><div class="">Reading package lists... Done</div><div class="">Building dependency tree </div><div class="">Reading state information... Done</div><div class="">Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have</div><div class="">requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable</div><div class="">distribution that some required packages have not yet been created</div><div class="">or been moved out of Incoming.</div><div class="">The following information may help to resolve the situation:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The following packages have unmet dependencies:</div><div class=""> syslog-ng-core : Depends: syslog-ng-mod-journal but it is not going to be installed</div><div class="">E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.</div><div class="">root@syslog:~# apt-get install syslog-ng-mod-journal</div><div class="">Reading package lists... Done</div><div class="">Building dependency tree </div><div class="">Reading state information... Done</div><div class="">Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have</div><div class="">requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable</div><div class="">distribution that some required packages have not yet been created</div><div class="">or been moved out of Incoming.</div><div class="">The following information may help to resolve the situation:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The following packages have unmet dependencies:</div><div class=""> syslog-ng-mod-journal : Depends: syslog-ng-abi-3.8-0 but it is not installable</div><div class="">E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.</div><div class="">root@syslog:~# apt-get install syslog-ng syslog-ng-core syslog-ng-mod-sql syslog-ng-mod-mongodb syslog-ng-mod-json syslog-ng-mod-journal</div></div><div class=""><div class="">Reading package lists... Done</div><div class="">Building dependency tree </div><div class="">Reading state information... Done</div><div class="">Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have</div><div class="">requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable</div><div class="">distribution that some required packages have not yet been created</div><div class="">or been moved out of Incoming.</div><div class="">The following information may help to resolve the situation:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The following packages have unmet dependencies:</div><div class=""> syslog-ng-mod-journal : Depends: syslog-ng-abi-3.8-0 but it is not installable</div><div class=""> syslog-ng-mod-json : Depends: syslog-ng-abi-3.8-0 but it is not installable</div><div class=""> syslog-ng-mod-mongodb : Depends: syslog-ng-abi-3.8-0 but it is not installable</div><div class=""> syslog-ng-mod-sql : Depends: syslog-ng-abi-3.8-0 but it is not installable</div><div class="">E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.</div><div class="">root@syslog:~# </div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">regards</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Simon - Hestor Ltd</div></body></html>