[syslog-ng] unable to install syslog-ng ubuntu 16.04

[Simon Smith]

Hi All

has anyone been able to install syslog-ng 3.8 successfully on ubuntu 16.04 ?

I’m using the link from the mailing list a few months ago but again no luck - http://lists.balabit.hu/pipermail/syslog-ng/2016-August/023150.html <http://lists.balabit.hu/pipermail/syslog-ng/2016-August/023150.html>

no matter what packages i try to install it just won’t work

any ideas?

root at syslog:~# apt-get install syslog-ng
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 syslog-ng : Depends: syslog-ng-core (>= 3.8.1) but it is not going to be installed
             Depends: syslog-ng-mod-sql but it is not going to be installed
             Depends: syslog-ng-mod-mongodb but it is not going to be installed
             Depends: syslog-ng-mod-json but it is not going to be installed
             Recommends: syslog-ng-mod-journal but it is not going to be installed
             Recommends: syslog-ng-mod-smtp but it is not going to be installed
             Recommends: syslog-ng-mod-amqp but it is not going to be installed
             Recommends: syslog-ng-mod-geoip but it is not going to be installed
             Recommends: syslog-ng-mod-redis but it is not going to be installed
             Recommends: syslog-ng-mod-stomp but it is not going to be installed
             Recommends: syslog-ng-mod-riemann but it is not going to be installed
             Recommends: syslog-ng-mod-graphite but it is not going to be installed
             Recommends: syslog-ng-mod-python but it is not going to be installed
             Recommends: syslog-ng-mod-java but it is not going to be installed
             Recommends: syslog-ng-mod-java-common-lib but it is not going to be installed
             Recommends: syslog-ng-mod-elastic but it is not going to be installed
             Recommends: syslog-ng-mod-hdfs but it is not going to be installed
             Recommends: syslog-ng-mod-kafka but it is not going to be installed
             Recommends: syslog-ng-mod-http but it is not going to be installed
             Recommends: syslog-ng-mod-curl but it is not going to be installed
             Recommends: syslog-ng-mod-kvformat but it is not going to be installed
             Recommends: syslog-ng-mod-add-contextual-data but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
root at syslog:~# apt-get install syslog-ng-core
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 syslog-ng-core : Depends: syslog-ng-mod-journal but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
root at syslog:~# apt-get install syslog-ng-mod-journal
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 syslog-ng-mod-journal : Depends: syslog-ng-abi-3.8-0 but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
root at 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
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 syslog-ng-mod-journal : Depends: syslog-ng-abi-3.8-0 but it is not installable
 syslog-ng-mod-json : Depends: syslog-ng-abi-3.8-0 but it is not installable
 syslog-ng-mod-mongodb : Depends: syslog-ng-abi-3.8-0 but it is not installable
 syslog-ng-mod-sql : Depends: syslog-ng-abi-3.8-0 but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
root at syslog:~# 

regards

Simon - Hestor Ltd
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