[syslog-ng] unable to install syslog-ng ubuntu 16.04
Simon Mousey Smith
simonsmith5521 at gmail.com
Tue Nov 8 16:50:01 UTC 2016
Thank you for trying to help out anyways,
If u remember how u got it installed it would be very helpful!
regards
Simon
> On 8 Nov 2016, at 16:49, Clayton Dukes <cdukes at logzilla.net> wrote:
>
> Our customers are installing it (as are we in test servers) without any problems.
> I did, however, have this problem several months ago but have no seen it since. Sadly, I don't remember how I fixed it. Sorry :(
>
> (note: I am not a Balabit employee, just trying to help out)
>
>
> From: syslog-ng <syslog-ng-bounces at lists.balabit.hu <mailto:syslog-ng-bounces at lists.balabit.hu>> on behalf of Varugis Kurien <vkurien at midfinsystems.com <mailto:vkurien at midfinsystems.com>>
> Reply-To: Syslog-ng users' and developers' mailing list <syslog-ng at lists.balabit.hu <mailto:syslog-ng at lists.balabit.hu>>
> Date: Tuesday, November 8, 2016 at 11:46 AM
> To: Syslog-ng users' and developers' mailing list <syslog-ng at lists.balabit.hu <mailto:syslog-ng at lists.balabit.hu>>
> Subject: Re: [syslog-ng] unable to install syslog-ng ubuntu 16.04
>
> I do exactly that using ansible. No luck. The problem is in the packaging itself.
> From: syslog-ng <syslog-ng-bounces at lists.balabit.hu <mailto:syslog-ng-bounces at lists.balabit.hu>> on behalf of Clayton Dukes <cdukes at logzilla.net <mailto:cdukes at logzilla.net>>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 8, 2016 8:41:36 AM
> To: Syslog-ng users' and developers' mailing list
> Subject: Re: [syslog-ng] unable to install syslog-ng ubuntu 16.04
>
> Try this (from our kickstart script at http://logzilla.sh) <http://logzilla.sh)>
>
> # Syslog-ng Repo:
> source /etc/lsb-release
> grep -q "deb http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/laszlo_budai:/syslog-ng/xUbuntu_${DISTRIB_RELEASE} <http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/laszlo_budai:/syslog-ng/xUbuntu_${DISTRIB_RELEASE}> ./" \
> /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/*.list || \
> echo "deb http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/laszlo_budai:/syslog-ng/xUbuntu_${DISTRIB_RELEASE} <http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/laszlo_budai:/syslog-ng/xUbuntu_${DISTRIB_RELEASE}> ./" \
> > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/syslog-ng.list
> apt-key list | grep -q laszlo_budai:syslog-ng || wget -qO- \
> "http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/laszlo_budai:/syslog-ng/xUbuntu_${DISTRIB_RELEASE}/Release.key <http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/laszlo_budai:/syslog-ng/xUbuntu_${DISTRIB_RELEASE}/Release.key>" | \
> sudo apt-key add - >/dev/null
>
> apt update
> apt install syslog-ng
>
>
> From: syslog-ng <syslog-ng-bounces at lists.balabit.hu <mailto:syslog-ng-bounces at lists.balabit.hu>> on behalf of Simon Mousey Smith <simonsmith5521 at gmail.com <mailto:simonsmith5521 at gmail.com>>
> Reply-To: Syslog-ng users' and developers' mailing list <syslog-ng at lists.balabit.hu <mailto:syslog-ng at lists.balabit.hu>>
> Date: Tuesday, November 8, 2016 at 7:10 AM
> To: Syslog-ng users' and developers' mailing list <syslog-ng at lists.balabit.hu <mailto:syslog-ng at lists.balabit.hu>>
> Subject: Re: [syslog-ng] unable to install syslog-ng ubuntu 16.04
>
> Hi,
>
> Im still no luck either :(
>
> Tried assorts but no luck
>
> regards
>
> Simon
>
> On 8 Nov 2016, at 12:10, Varugis Kurien <vkurien at midfinsystems.com <mailto:vkurien at midfinsystems.com>> wrote:
>
> Hi Laszlo,
> Have you been able to get this to work? I am in exactly the same position as Simon - I need the ability to parse Linux audit logs in syslog-ng.
> From: syslog-ng <syslog-ng-bounces at lists.balabit.hu <mailto:syslog-ng-bounces at lists.balabit.hu>> on behalf of Laszlo Budai <laszlo.budai at outlook.com <mailto:laszlo.budai at outlook.com>>
> Sent: Saturday, November 5, 2016 1:59:09 PM
> To: Syslog-ng users' and developers' mailing list
> Subject: Re: [syslog-ng] unable to install syslog-ng ubuntu 16.04
>
> Hi,
> in docker it is not working...
> I'll try to fix this issue.
>
> regards,
> Laszlo Budai
>
> _____________________________
> From: Scheidler, Balázs <balazs.scheidler at balabit.com <mailto:balazs.scheidler at balabit.com>>
> Sent: Saturday, November 5, 2016 9:21 AM
> Subject: Re: [syslog-ng] unable to install syslog-ng ubuntu 16.04n
> To: László Budai <lbudai at balabit.hu <mailto:lbudai at balabit.hu>>, Syslog-ng users' and developers' mailing list <syslog-ng at lists.balabit.hu <mailto:syslog-ng at lists.balabit.hu>>
>
>
>
> 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 <mailto: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 <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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