Deployment of linux client fails

starbuck

I'm trying to "Install Bacula components on API host" and get this message when trying to install the client:

Software managment command is not configured.,Non-zero exitcode returned by software management command.
Output:sudo /usr/bin/apt -y install --reinstall bacula-fd 2>&1

WARNING: apt does not have a stable CLI interface. Use with caution in scripts.

Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
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:
bacula-fd : Depends: bacula-common (= 13.0.4-1build3) but 15.0.3-1_noble is to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

It seems like it wants to install an older Version of bacula-common.
I have the actual repositories for Ubuntu 24.04 installed and the packages are available (for both, the main server and the client).

bacularis on the main server is: 5.0.0_noble
bacula on the main server is: bacula-common 15.0.3-1_noble

gani

Hello @starbuck

Welcome to the Bacularis User Group.

It looks that you have added Bacula.org Ubuntu package repository but your OS profile uses the Ubuntu system package repository and it causes a problem. But please don't worry, the current host state is possible to revert.

To solve this situation, you need to decide if you want to install Bacula packages from Bacula.org repository (currently 15.0.3) or from Ubuntu Noble system repository (13.0.4).

If you want to use Bacula packages from Ubuntu system repostories, you can to do it in few ways. Here is the simplest one:

1) in Bacularis web interface on Deployment page remove on the API hosts list this newly added API host.
2) on the destination host in command line remove with --purge option existing installed Bacularis and Bacula packages during the deployment process (packages: bacula* and bacularis*).
3) on the destination host remove Bacula.org repository definition from the APT package manager configuration (/etc/apt/sources.list.d) with running apt update at the end
4) in Bacularis web interface deploy Bacularis API on the remote host once again
5) in Bacularis web interface deploy Bacula Client on the remote host

If you want to use Bacula.org repositories, you need can also do it in few ways. Here is the simplest one:

1) in Bacularis web interface on Deployment page remove on the API hosts list this newly added API host.
2) on the destination host in command line remove with --purge option existing installed Bacularis and Bacula packages during the deployment process (packages: bacula* and bacularis*).
3) in Bacularis web interface create a new OS profile that inherits all properties from existing predefined Ubuntu 24.04 OS profile.
4) in Bacularis web interface in this new OS profile use function to adapt OS profile to Bacula.org repositories.
5) in Bacularis web interface deploy Bacularis API on the remote host once again but this time with using the new OS profile in the deployment window.
6) in Bacularis web interface deploy Bacula Client on the remote host

Points 3), 4), 5) and 6) you can watch on this video guide:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9OGG0cj6zA

In case problems, please let us know.

Good luck.

Best regards,
Marcin Haba (gani)

starbuck

Hello Marcin,

thank you very much, this was what I needed.
And sorry, i haven't watched the videos and also didn't read the documentation regarding this Problem.

Kind Regards
Martin

gani

starbuck

Hello Martin

starbuck thank you very much, this was what I needed.

Super. I'm glad it started working.

starbuck And sorry, i haven't watched the videos and also didn't read the documentation regarding this Problem.

No worries. We are here to help.

Best regards,
Marcin Haba (gani)