Zabbix 2.0.5 packages for Debian/Ubuntu

[jbfavre]

Hello,
I'm very proud to announce the availibility of Zabbix 2.0.5 packages for Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid & Ubuntu 12.04 Precise.
I've been working on it since early 2.x release.

Packages can be found at:

deb http://packages.tooptee.org/ lucid experimental

for Lucid

deb http://packages.tooptee.org/ precise experimental

for Precise

Repository is signed with my own key: 35C2E2F1

wget http://packages.tooptee.org/pubkey.gpg -O - | sudo apt-key add -

Even if the repo is called "experimental", I use zabbix-server, zabbix-proxy & zabbix-agent with my own packages at work, since 1.8.10 (sort of "eat you own dog food" thing )

Packaging debian directory will be available on github within next hours.

I'm also pleased to announce Zabbix 2.0.5 for Debian 6.0 "Squeeze" on behalf Guillaume Plessis from Dotdeb project (http://www.dotdeb.org/2013/02/12/zabbix-2-0-5/).

Packages can be found at:

deb http://packages.dotdeb.org squeeze all

You're welcome to test and report bugs in github issue page:

https://github.com/jbfavre/tooptee-zabbix/issues

for Ubuntu version

https://github.com/gplessis/dotdeb-zabbix/issues

for Debian version

Regards,
Jean Baptiste Favre
Guillaume Plessis

[georgew]

Thanks for the packages

I'm installing from the packages you provided now, so thanks for that! It should save me a lot of time.

I did notice what looks like an error during installation on a 64 bit 12.0.4 Ubuntu server system. This was a fresh install with only the ssh server installed. I like to start with nothing installed, so that the application pulls in all of the dependencies, rather than start with what may be a sub-optimal starting point.

I'm not an apt expert, I've only been using it for 5 years or so installing hundreds of lamp stack based web application servers of various types (such as Zabbix), and never needed to dig too deep in it as I usually install default versions (and update them by hand later if needed). But I was wary of crossing a major version boundry (1.x to 2.x).

After adding your server to my config, and pulling in the keys for it, my first pass at installation ended up with a broken 1.8 installation... That probably had nothing to do with you or your packaging. It was broken in a strange way, but I'll not go into that. (The last default version of zabbix server I installed with apt-get was complete and working).

I stopped debugging when I realized I didn't have 2.0.5. I formatted the drive and started over at this point. I dug around a bit on how to force apt to get the experimental version, and decided I didn't have time, so I just downloaded the packages to install them with dpkg -i ./zab...
Normally when I use dpkg, I expect dependency errors which I clean up with an "apt-get -fy install".

However when I started with the zabbix-server package, dpkg failed to successfully run with an error accessing a file:
/var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/config: 3: .: Can't open /usr/share/dbconfig-common/dpkg/config.mysql

Mysql and dbconfig-common were not installed of course... I expected to see a dependancy error, rather than a failure with dpkg. I installed mysql and dbconfig packages with apt-get, then everything started working as expected.

Is there an error in the dependencies in the packaging? I expected mysql (and other) dependency errors, but I didn't get that far. Obviously I worked around it, so this is a bug report rather than a request for help.

I'm still pulling packages in for the front-end, so I can't report on how cleanly that goes... I'll post later for that.

Update: Success! After installing the server and front end packages, I was able to pull up the web page and log in. I got a bunch of errors from Date() and some PHP setting errors... But those are just standard things I need to go set, so I expect those. Thanks for your 2.0.5 packages!

[jbfavre]

Hello Georgew,
Thanks for you report. Please find my answers inline

After adding your server to my config, and pulling in the keys for it, my first pass at installation ended up with a broken 1.8 installation... That probably had nothing to do with you or your packaging. It was broken in a strange way, but I'll not go into that. (The last default version of zabbix server I installed with apt-get was complete and working).

Oh I see. My Zabbix packages come with version 2.0.5 when Ubuntu ones have 1:1.8.

Actually, 1:1.8 is considered as greater than 2.0 as you can check with:

# dpkg --compare-versions 2.0 gt 1:1.8
# echo $?
1

With means that statement "2.0 is greater than 1:1.8" is false.

That's a current limitation of my build farm. I'm working on it, but do not have a definitive solution for now.

What I can suggest in the meantime is to use apt_preferences likas follow:

# cat /etc/apt/preferences.d/01-zabbix.pref 
Package: zabbix-agent zabbix-server-mysql zabbix-proxy-mysql zabbix-frontend-php
Pin: version 2.0*
Pin-Priority: 990

Assuming you want to use zabbix-server with mysql backend.
To not forget to run apt-get update.

This will ensure version 2.0* version of Zabbix and will force 1:1.8 skip.

Please note you can always check which version is about to be installed with following command:
- Without apt preference file:

# apt-cache policy zabbix-server-mysql
zabbix-server-mysql:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 1:1.8.11-1
  Version table:
     1:1.8.11-1 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/universe amd64 Packages
     2.0.5-3~tooptee12+1 0
        500 file:/mnt/repository/www/ precise/experimental amd64 Packages

- With apt preferences file:

# # apt-cache policy zabbix-server-mysql
zabbix-server-mysql:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 2.0.5-3~tooptee12+1
  Package pin: 2.0.5-3~tooptee12+1
  Version table:
     1:1.8.11-1 501
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/universe amd64 Packages
     2.0.5-3~tooptee12+1 501
        200 file:/mnt/repository/www/ precise/experimental amd64 Packages

I stopped debugging when I realized I didn't have 2.0.5. I formatted the drive and started over at this point. I dug around a bit on how to force apt to get the experimental version, and decided I didn't have time, so I just downloaded the packages to install them with dpkg -i ./zab...
Normally when I use dpkg, I expect dependency errors which I clean up with an "apt-get -fy install".

However when I started with the zabbix-server package, dpkg failed to successfully run with an error accessing a file:
/var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/config: 3: .: Can't open /usr/share/dbconfig-common/dpkg/config.mysql

Mysql and dbconfig-common were not installed of course... I expected to see a dependancy error, rather than a failure with dpkg. I installed mysql and dbconfig packages with apt-get, then everything started working as expected.

dpkg does not deal with automatic dependencies installation.
Therefore, you'll have to install all of them *before* installing .deb packages.

Update: Success! After installing the server and front end packages, I was able to pull up the web page and log in. I got a bunch of errors from Date() and some PHP setting errors... But those are just standard things I need to go set, so I expect those. Thanks for your 2.0.5 packages!

Not sure about Date() errors, but with recent PHP you must set

date.timezone

into php.ini (/etc/php5/apache2/php.ini if you use PHP as an Apache module, /etc/php5/fpm/php.ini if you use PHP-FPM)

Regards,
Jean Baptiste

[georgew]

Thanks!

Thanks for the information on apt preferences, that was a bit more concise and useful than the general info I was finding in my web searches.

As for dpkg, yeah I know it doesn't resolve the dependencies, but it does set things up so that running "apt-get -fy install" will successfully resolve the dependencies and complete the installation. That procedure worked for all of the packages except the server package. dpkg failed to process that package because of a missing file rather than a missing dependency. Once mysql and friends were installed, dpkg was able to process the server package so that "apt-get -fy install" was able to resolve the dependancies and leave the package in a working state.

I think if I had started with a base OS install that included LAMP, I would have probably not noticed this issue.

In any event, thanks for all of your work!!

[jbfavre]

Hello,
Juste released new packages ('1:2.0.5-4~tooptee12+1') using epoch so that there won't be any precedence issue on Ubuntu

[hshicx]

APT Repository Key

Hi,

Thanks for sharing these packages. I am just wondering, is there a key for the Ubuntu repository?

Thanks,
Hs

[jbfavre]

Hi,

Thanks for sharing these packages. I am just wondering, is there a key for the Ubuntu repository?

Thanks,
Hs

Hello,
Thanks for pointing that out. Yes, there is a key:

wget http://packages.tooptee.org/pubkey.gpg -O - | sudo apt-key add -

I've updated first post.
Regards,
Jean Baptiste

[ZABBIXRESEARCH]

Installation with this sources FAIL

Hi,

installation with this repo FAILS:

 zabbix-server-sqlite3
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install.  Trying to recover:
Setting up zabbix-server-sqlite3 (1:2.0.5-4~tooptee12+1) ...
chown: cannot access `/var/lib/zabbix': No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing zabbix-server-sqlite3 (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 zabbix-server-sqlite3

seems like a directory is missing.

Did you testthese packages before you released them or are WE testing them?

Please do not release packages, if you do not knwo what you are doing, thanks.

[Treq]

Get error when installing the server-sqlite version

Hi,

I get an error when I install on Ubuntu 12.04.2.
I chose "Yes" when prompted to automatically set up the SQLite database.

Kind regards,
Treq

root@Odin:~# apt-get install zabbix-server-sqlite3
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  dbconfig-common libiksemel3 libopenipmi0 libssh2-1
Suggested packages:
  virtual-mysql-client mysql-client postgresql-client zabbix-frontend-php
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  dbconfig-common libiksemel3 libopenipmi0 libssh2-1 zabbix-server-sqlite3
0 upgraded, 5 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 2690 kB of archives.
After this operation, 7731 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y
Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/universe libiksemel3 i386 1.2-4build1 [27.4 kB]
Get:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/main libopenipmi0 i386 2.0.18-0ubuntu3 [496 kB]
Get:3 http://packages.tooptee.org/ precise/experimental zabbix-server-sqlite3 i386 1:2.0.5-4~tooptee12+1 [1635 kB]
Get:4 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/universe libssh2-1 i386 1.2.8-2 [74.0 kB]
Get:5 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/main dbconfig-common all 1.8.47 [458 kB]
Fetched 2690 kB in 0s (2724 kB/s)
Preconfiguring packages ...
Selecting previously unselected package libiksemel3.
(Reading database ... 33879 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking libiksemel3 (from .../libiksemel3_1.2-4build1_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously unselected package libopenipmi0.
Unpacking libopenipmi0 (from .../libopenipmi0_2.0.18-0ubuntu3_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously unselected package libssh2-1.
Unpacking libssh2-1 (from .../libssh2-1_1.2.8-2_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously unselected package dbconfig-common.
Unpacking dbconfig-common (from .../dbconfig-common_1.8.47_all.deb) ...
Selecting previously unselected package zabbix-server-sqlite3.
Unpacking zabbix-server-sqlite3 (from .../zabbix-server-sqlite3_1%3a2.0.5-4~tooptee12+1_i386.deb) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up libiksemel3 (1.2-4build1) ...
Setting up libopenipmi0 (2.0.18-0ubuntu3) ...
Setting up libssh2-1 (1.2.8-2) ...
Setting up dbconfig-common (1.8.47) ...

Creating config file /etc/dbconfig-common/config with new version
Setting up zabbix-server-sqlite3 (1:2.0.5-4~tooptee12+1) ...
chown: cannot access `/var/lib/zabbix': No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing zabbix-server-sqlite3 (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Processing triggers for libc-bin ...
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
Errors were encountered while processing:
 zabbix-server-sqlite3
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
root@Odin:~#

[Marki555]

Debian Squeeze

Zabbix 2.0.5 packages for Debian Squeeze are also available via the Dotdeb repository - www.dotdeb.org . Many sites use Dotdeb for PHP, MySQL, Nginx, etc in production. I also didn't have any issues with them.

[chopeta]

I am using ZabbixZone repo.

http://zabbixzone.com/zabbix/zabbixzone-repository/

Packages are available for CentOS 5, CentOS 6 and Debian 6 (Squeeze).

[zalex_ua]

It worth to mention official packages https://www.zabbix.com/documentation..._from_packages

The Zabbix Zone is actually a community mirror of the official Zabbix repo.

[zalex_ua]

And just in case - there is EPEL repo as well http://blog.zabbix.com/zabbix-2-0-pa...entos-sl/1893/

[iazabbix]

postgres - packages and default startup

@Jean

Good work. For zabbix-mysql-server and zabbix-frontend-php, things are working fine for me.

I am not sure if you are doing it absolutely correct as upon installing zabbix-frontend-php the postgres packages are listed as mandatory dependencies and it even fires up postgres by default even if you choose mysql.

Upon installation of zabbix-server-mysql the installation is smooth but mysql is not set for default start.

Let me know if you need any further information to correct the above.

Cheers,
Shrenik

[iazabbix]

It worth to mention official packages https://www.zabbix.com/documentation..._from_packages

The Zabbix Zone is actually a community mirror of the official Zabbix repo.

But as of now it lacks the Ubuntu 12.04 packages for 2.0.5 . Please correct me if I am wrong. Hence I am currently using the packages available in the top post.