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

Gergely Bodnár gergely.bodnar at balabit.com
Wed Nov 9 19:16:31 UTC 2016 

Possibly your previous installation is incomplete, therefore the workaround
is not working.
Try removing previous syslog-ng packages, then install it again:
# dpkg -l | grep syslog-ng | cut -d " " -f 3 | xargs dpkg -r
# apt-get install syslog-ng syslog-ng-core

Regards,
Gergely

On Wed, Nov 9, 2016 at 7:58 PM 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.
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*From:* syslog-ng <syslog-ng-bounces at lists.balabit.hu> on behalf of Simon
Mousey Smith <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> 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
> 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> 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> on behalf of Varugis
Kurien <vkurien at midfinsystems.com>
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syslog-ng at lists.balabit.hu>
*Date: *Tuesday, November 8, 2016 at 11:46 AM
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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.
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*From:* syslog-ng <syslog-ng-bounces at lists.balabit.hu> on behalf of Clayton
Dukes <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)

# Syslog-ng Repo:
source /etc/lsb-release
    grep -q "deb
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}
 ./" \
        > /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"
| \
        sudo apt-key add - >/dev/null

apt update
apt install syslog-ng


*From: *syslog-ng <syslog-ng-bounces at lists.balabit.hu> on behalf of Simon
Mousey Smith <simonsmith5521 at gmail.com>
*Reply-To: *Syslog-ng users' and developers' mailing list <
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>
*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> 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.
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*From:* syslog-ng <syslog-ng-bounces at lists.balabit.hu> on behalf of Laszlo
Budai <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>
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>, Syslog-ng users' and developers'
mailing list <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>
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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