<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="">Forgive me I was viewing the email on my phone<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Didn’t see an attachment lol</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Will give it a try later and let you know how I get on</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">regards</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Simon </div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 5 Nov 2016, at 09:11, Scheidler, Balázs <<a href="mailto:balazs.scheidler@balabit.com" class="">balazs.scheidler@balabit.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div class="">That file I generated using Debian's equivs utility, and I attached both the file and the control file used to generate it.<br class=""><br class=""></div>If you copy "syslog-ng-abi" as an attachment anywhere (it is a few lines of text), you can get the same deb file using <br class=""><br class=""></div># equivs syslog-ng-abi<br class=""></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all" class=""><div class=""><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class="">-- <br class="">Bazsi<br class=""></div></div></div>
<br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Nov 5, 2016 at 9:52 AM, <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:simonsmith5521@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">simonsmith5521@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto" class=""><div class="">Hi</div><div id="m_-5882185533333774381AppleMailSignature" class=""><br class=""></div><div id="m_-5882185533333774381AppleMailSignature" class="">I thought about installing the deb file manually but i cant find the package file anywhere?</div><div id="m_-5882185533333774381AppleMailSignature" class=""><br class=""></div><div id="m_-5882185533333774381AppleMailSignature" class="">Do u have a link to the file?</div><div id="m_-5882185533333774381AppleMailSignature" class=""><br class=""></div><div id="m_-5882185533333774381AppleMailSignature" class="">Regards</div><div id="m_-5882185533333774381AppleMailSignature" class=""><br class=""></div><div id="m_-5882185533333774381AppleMailSignature" class="">Simon</div><div id="m_-5882185533333774381AppleMailSignature" class=""><br class="">Sent from my iPhone</div><div class=""><div class="h5"><div class=""><br class="">On 5 Nov 2016, at 08:20, Scheidler, Balázs <<a href="mailto:balazs.scheidler@balabit.com" target="_blank" class="">balazs.scheidler@balabit.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class=""></div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class="">Indeed, I think the problem is that syslog-ng core depends on syslog-ng-mod-journal, which recursively depends on syslog-ng-core through a Provides line.<br class=""><br class=""></div>Hmm.. the funny part that a week ago I successfully installed the same package on one of my servers, but now in a clean docker container I couldn't do that.<br class=""><br class=""></div>I have a workaround, attached you'll find an equivs compatible control file, that provides the missing dependency, once that is installed, "apt-get install syslog-ng" works.<br class=""><br class=""></div>It goes like this:<br class=""></div><br class=""><div class=""><div class=""># dpkg -i syslog-ng-abi-3.8-0_3.8.1-1_<wbr class="">all.deb <br class="">Selecting previously unselected package syslog-ng-abi-3.8-0.<br class="">(Reading database ... 7256 files and directories currently installed.)<br class="">Preparing to unpack syslog-ng-abi-3.8-0_3.8.1-1_<wbr class="">all.deb ...<br class="">Unpacking syslog-ng-abi-3.8-0 (3.8.1-1) ...<br class="">Setting up syslog-ng-abi-3.8-0 (3.8.1-1) ...<br class=""></div><div class=""># apt-get install syslog-ng-core<br class="">Reading package lists... Done<br class="">Building dependency tree <br class="">Reading state information... Done<br class="">The following additional packages will be installed:<br class=""> cron libevtlog0 libffi6 libglib2.0-0 libglib2.0-data libicu55 libivykis0 libnet1 libpopt0 libssl1.0.0 libwrap0 libxml2 logrotate sgml-base<br class=""> shared-mime-info syslog-ng-mod-journal tcpd xdg-user-dirs xml-core<br class="">Suggested packages:<br class=""> anacron checksecurity exim4 | postfix | mail-transport-agent mailx sgml-base-doc syslog-ng-mod-sql syslog-ng-mod-mongodb syslog-ng-mod-json<br class=""> syslog-ng-mod-smtp syslog-ng-mod-amqp syslog-ng-mod-geoip syslog-ng-mod-redis syslog-ng-mod-stomp syslog-ng-mod-riemann syslog-ng-mod-graphite<br class=""> syslog-ng-mod-python syslog-ng-mod-java syslog-ng-mod-java-common-lib syslog-ng-mod-elastic syslog-ng-mod-hdfs syslog-ng-mod-kafka syslog-ng-mod-http<br class=""> syslog-ng-mod-curl syslog-ng-mod-kvformat syslog-ng-mod-add-contextual-<wbr class="">data debhelper<br class="">The following NEW packages will be installed:<br class=""> cron libevtlog0 libffi6 libglib2.0-0 libglib2.0-data libicu55 libivykis0 libnet1 libpopt0 libssl1.0.0 libwrap0 libxml2 logrotate sgml-base<br class=""> shared-mime-info syslog-ng-core syslog-ng-mod-journal tcpd xdg-user-dirs xml-core<br class="">0 upgraded, 20 newly installed, 0 to remove and 11 not upgraded.<br class="">Need to get 11.9 MB of archives.<br class="">After this operation, 49.5 MB of additional disk space will be used.<br class="">Do you want to continue? [Y/n] <br class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The "syslog-ng-core" package only contains a subset of the syslog-ng package, pulling in a smaller set of dependencies, whereas syslog-ng is the full set.<br class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The abi package here is just a fake one, I'll make sure this packaging issue gets fixed.<br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all" class=""><div class=""><div class="m_-5882185533333774381gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class="">-- <br class="">Bazsi<br class=""></div></div></div>
<br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 10:25 PM, Simon Smith <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:simonsmith5521@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">simonsmith5521@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word" 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" target="_blank" class="">http://lists.balabit.hu/pipe<wbr class="">rmail/syslog-ng/2016-August/<wbr class="">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-d<wbr class="">ata 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></div><br class="">______________________________<wbr class="">______________________________<wbr class="">__________________<br class="">
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