Debian8 - Installation error:

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#1 Sun, 05/03/2015 - 14:13
JackB

Debian8 - Installation error:

Hi,

I downloaded Debian8 and tried to install it but I get the following error when trying to run the virtualmin install script.

Here is my Sources.list

deb http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian jessie main deb-src http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian jessie main

deb http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian jessie-updates main deb-src http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian jessie-updates main

deb http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main deb-src http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main

wheezy-updates, previously known as 'volatile'

deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-updates main contrib deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-updates main contrib

Debian local mirror (France)

deb http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian stable main contrib deb-src http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian stable main contrib

Debian Old-Stable (Squeeze) Mirrors for Extra Packages & Libraries French and German Mirrors

deb http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian squeeze-lts main deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian squeeze-lts main

Here is the error

INFO - Installing dependencies using command: /usr/bin/apt-get --config-file apt.conf.noninteractive -y --force-yes install bsdutils postfix postfix-pcre webmin usermin ruby libxml-simple-perl libcrypt-ssleay-perl unzip zip libfcgi-dev bind9 spamassassin spamc procmail procmail-wrapper libnet-ssleay-perl libpg-perl libdbd-pg-perl libdbd-mysql-perl quota iptables openssl python mailman subversion ruby irb rdoc ri mysql-server mysql-client mysql-common postgresql postgresql-client awstats webalizer dovecot-common dovecot-imapd dovecot-pop3d proftpd libcrypt-ssleay-perl awstats clamav-base clamav-daemon clamav clamav-freshclam clamav-docs clamav-testfiles libapache2-mod-fcgid apache2-suexec-custom scponly apache2 apache2-doc libapache2-svn libsasl2-2 libsasl2-modules sasl2-bin php-pear php5 php5-cgi libapache2-mod-php5 php5-mysql ...in progress, please wait... .E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

/usr/bin/apt-get --config-file apt.conf.noninteractive -y --force-yes install bsdutils postfix postfix-pcre webmin usermin ruby libxml-simple-perl libcrypt-ssleay-perl unzip zip libfcgi-dev bind9 spamassassin spamc procmail procmail-wrapper libnet-ssleay-perl libpg-perl libdbd-pg-perl libdbd-mysql-perl quota iptables openssl python mailman subversion ruby irb rdoc ri mysql-server mysql-client mysql-common postgresql postgresql-client awstats webalizer dovecot-common dovecot-imapd dovecot-pop3d proftpd libcrypt-ssleay-perl awstats clamav-base clamav-daemon clamav clamav-freshclam clamav-docs clamav-testfiles libapache2-mod-fcgid apache2-suexec-custom scponly apache2 apache2-doc libapache2-svn libsasl2-2 libsasl2-modules sasl2-bin php-pear php5 php5-cgi libapache2-mod-php5 php5-mysql failed. Error (if any): 0

Displaying the last 15 lines of /root/virtualmin-install.log to help troubleshoot this problem: Reading package lists... Building dependency tree... Reading state information... iptables is already the newest version. bsdutils is already the newest version. 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: dovecot-common : Depends: libdb4.8 but it is not installable dovecot-imapd : Depends: dovecot-core (= 1:2.2.13-11) but it is not going to be installed dovecot-pop3d : Depends: dovecot-core (= 1:2.2.13-11) but it is not going to be installed

FATAL - Fatal Error Occurred: Something went wrong during installation: 0 FATAL - Cannot continue installation. FATAL - Attempting to remove virtualmin repository configuration, so the installation can be FATAL - re-attempted after any problems have been resolved. FATAL - Removing temporary directory and files. FATAL - If you are unsure of what went wrong, you may wish to review the log FATAL - in /root/virtualmin-install.log

Sun, 05/03/2015 - 15:16
JackB

This looks like it can be solved by commenting out the squeeze repositories.

Hope this helps someone.

Regards

Tue, 03/08/2016 - 06:09
texhead
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For what it's worth, same issue and JackB was right. I removed the squeeze repositories and it installed. Fresh install of Debian 8, did the update then ran install.sh.

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