[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
Our 16.04 images are OpenVZ Containers AND LXC Containers, so they are rebuild for us
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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>>>>
>>>>
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