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

simonsmith5521 at gmail.com simonsmith5521 at gmail.com
Sat Nov 5 08:52:00 UTC 2016 

Hi

I thought about installing the deb file manually but i cant find the package file anywhere?

Do u have a link to the file?

Regards

Simon

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> On 5 Nov 2016, at 08:20, Scheidler, Balázs <balazs.scheidler at balabit.com> wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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.
> 
> It goes like this:
> 
> # dpkg -i syslog-ng-abi-3.8-0_3.8.1-1_all.deb 
> Selecting previously unselected package syslog-ng-abi-3.8-0.
> (Reading database ... 7256 files and directories currently installed.)
> Preparing to unpack syslog-ng-abi-3.8-0_3.8.1-1_all.deb ...
> Unpacking syslog-ng-abi-3.8-0 (3.8.1-1) ...
> Setting up syslog-ng-abi-3.8-0 (3.8.1-1) ...
> # apt-get install syslog-ng-core
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree       
> Reading state information... Done
> The following additional packages will be installed:
>   cron libevtlog0 libffi6 libglib2.0-0 libglib2.0-data libicu55 libivykis0 libnet1 libpopt0 libssl1.0.0 libwrap0 libxml2 logrotate sgml-base
>   shared-mime-info syslog-ng-mod-journal tcpd xdg-user-dirs xml-core
> Suggested packages:
>   anacron checksecurity exim4 | postfix | mail-transport-agent mailx sgml-base-doc syslog-ng-mod-sql syslog-ng-mod-mongodb syslog-ng-mod-json
>   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
>   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
>   syslog-ng-mod-curl syslog-ng-mod-kvformat syslog-ng-mod-add-contextual-data debhelper
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>   cron libevtlog0 libffi6 libglib2.0-0 libglib2.0-data libicu55 libivykis0 libnet1 libpopt0 libssl1.0.0 libwrap0 libxml2 logrotate sgml-base
>   shared-mime-info syslog-ng-core syslog-ng-mod-journal tcpd xdg-user-dirs xml-core
> 0 upgraded, 20 newly installed, 0 to remove and 11 not upgraded.
> Need to get 11.9 MB of archives.
> After this operation, 49.5 MB of additional disk space will be used.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n] 
> 
> 
> 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.
> 
> The abi package here is just a fake one, I'll make sure this packaging issue gets fixed.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Bazsi
> 
>> On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 10:25 PM, Simon Smith <simonsmith5521 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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
>> 
>> 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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