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Unsupported debian version while installing collector(metrics collector)

himanshutejwani
Path Finder

We are facing problem while installing a collector(metrics collector) from the script on the Ubuntu 18.04 LTS machine.alt text
As we have run the same script on the same version of Ubuntu and its working perfectly fine.
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dagarwal_splunk
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Can you please try this command manually: apt-get install collectd . OR apt-cache policy collectd

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himanshutejwani
Path Finder

I have tried both the command still getting below errors:-

# apt-get install collectd

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package collectd

# apt-cache policy collectd

N: Unable to locate package collectd

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dagarwal_splunk
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Ubuntu bionic has collectd package. For some reason yours don't have that:
https://packages.ubuntu.com/bionic/collectd

Do apt-get update and retry?

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himanshutejwani
Path Finder

I have already done apt-get update

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