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

[Simon Mousey Smith]

Strangely enough the isn’t a package called syslog-ng on its own only syslog-ng-* ?

The packages seem to follow this patten:

syslog-ng-core
syslog-ng-dbg
syslog-ng-dev
syslog-ng-mod-*

regards

Simon

> On 17 Nov 2016, at 18:29, Varugis Kurien <vkurien at midfinsystems.com> wrote:
> 
> Didn't you install syslog-ng as well? It was missing from your dpkg list. 
> 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: Thursday, November 17, 2016 9:24:14 AM
> To: Syslog-ng users' and developers' mailing list
> Subject: Re: [syslog-ng] unable to install syslog-ng ubuntu 16.04
>  
> Well ive had some progress!
> 
> Managed to get a manual build working, but it didn’t copy any files over anywhere and had to run it manually, groan
> 
> But I’ve also managed to get the DEB files installed from http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/laszlo_budai:/syslog-ng/xUbuntu_16.04/amd64/ <http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/laszlo_budai:/syslog-ng/xUbuntu_16.04/amd64/>
> 
> 1. Remove rsyslog ( apt-get purge rsyslog )
> 2. Download the following packages from url above with wget
> libevtlog0_0.2.12-6_amd64.deb
> libivykis0_0.36.3-1_amd64.deb 
> syslog-ng-core_3.8.1-1_amd64.deb 
> syslog-ng-mod-journal_3.8.1-1_amd64.deb 
> syslog-ng-mod-sql_3.8.1-1_amd64.deb
> 3. Then simply installed them all ( dpkg -i * ) 
> 4. And BOOM it worked :) 
> 
> Ok il have to manually install the updated deb when available but at least it works!
> 
> Regards
> 
> Simon
> 
> 
>> On 17 Nov 2016, at 16:44, Scheidler, Balázs <balazs.scheidler at balabit.com <mailto:balazs.scheidler at balabit.com>> wrote:
>> 
>> You may notice that Laszlo said he had a few updated packages to test in his OBS repo a few emails ago.
>> 
>> -- 
>> Bazsi
>> 
>> On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 5:30 PM, Simon Mousey Smith <simonsmith5521 at gmail.com <mailto:simonsmith5521 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> Our 16.04 images are OpenVZ Containers AND LXC Containers, so they are prebuild for us
>> 
>> Is the any update on this at all?
>> 
>> Simon
>> 
>>> On 14 Nov 2016, at 17:05, Varugis Kurien <vkurien at midfinsystems.com <mailto:vkurien at midfinsystems.com>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Simon,
>>> I was able to get 16.04 work with a clean build using the standard ISO image. I had to install syslog-ng-core first. 
>>> 
>>> How do you build your U16.04 images?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Unfortunately Ubuntu 12.04 still doesn't work due to sylog-ng-mod-python package being incorrect. I worked around this by fixing the preinst in the package and generating a new one for now.
>>> 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: Monday, November 14, 2016 2:03:09 AM
>>> To: Syslog-ng users' and developers' mailing list
>>> Subject: Re: [syslog-ng] unable to install syslog-ng ubuntu 16.04
>>>  
>>> 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
>> 
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