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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.
Please refer to the images attached with this question.

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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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