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

Simon Mousey Smith simonsmith5521 at gmail.com
Mon Nov 14 10:03:09 UTC 2016


Hi,

Was the any update on install syslog-ng on ubuntu 16.04?

I can install syslog-ng 3.5.6 fine from the ubuntu apt

But I would rather use the latest version 3.8 from the unofficial repo

Im still having no luck installing it however :(

regards

Simon

> On 9 Nov 2016, at 18:58, Varugis Kurien <vkurien at midfinsystems.com> wrote:
> 
> I can confirm that the workaround that Gergely mentioned works on a stock install of 16.04 where syslog-ng was never installed. I built the VM image using packer FWIW so no "by-hand" hacking was involved.
> 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>>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 9, 2016 4:04:36 AM
> To: Syslog-ng users' and developers' mailing list
> Subject: Re: [syslog-ng] unable to install syslog-ng ubuntu 16.04
>  
> Hi
> 
> Doesn’t work with my 16.04 yet, so I will hang fire!
> 
> regards
> 
> Simon
> 
> 
>> On 8 Nov 2016, at 20:42, Budai, László <laszlo.budai at balabit.com <mailto:laszlo.budai at balabit.com>> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I've built packages of syslog-ng for Ubuntu 16.10 (it worked for me).
>> Could someone test it?
>> 
>> My plan is to check the 16.04 issue on Friday.
>> 
>> regards,
>> Laszlo Budai
>> 
>> 
>> On Tue, Nov 8, 2016 at 5:50 PM, Simon Mousey Smith <simonsmith5521 at gmail.com <mailto:simonsmith5521 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> 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 <mailto: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_${DISTRIB_RELEASE} <http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/laszlo_budai:/syslog-ng/xUbuntu_$%7BDISTRIB_RELEASE%7D> ./" \
>>>         /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/*.list || \
>>>         echo "deb http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/laszlo_budai:/syslog-ng/xUbuntu_${DISTRIB_RELEASE} <http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/laszlo_budai:/syslog-ng/xUbuntu_$%7BDISTRIB_RELEASE%7D> ./" \
>>>         > /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_${DISTRIB_RELEASE}/Release.key <http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/laszlo_budai:/syslog-ng/xUbuntu_$%7BDISTRIB_RELEASE%7D/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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