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

Simon Mousey Smith simonsmith5521 at gmail.com
Mon Nov 14 17:21:04 UTC 2016


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Simon

> On 14 Nov 2016, at 17:05, Varugis Kurien <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> on behalf of Simon Mousey Smith <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
> 
>> On 9 Nov 2016, at 18:58, Varugis Kurien <vkurien at midfinsystems.com <mailto: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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