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Debian and Ubuntu

written by Laszlo Budai

Introduction

This chapter describes how you can install syslog-ng on Debian and on Ubuntu operating systems from our APT repository.

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Install syslog-ng from APT repository

The syslog-ng team has an unofficial APT repository hosted by OBS for Debian and Ubuntu. Available versions in the OBS repository :

• 3.6.4
• 3.7.1
• 3.7.2
• 3.7.3

The packaging structure following the original one was created by algernon for Debian systems. This is basically a modular packaging strategy.

Repositories are available here and here .

Supported Debian and Ubuntu releases

• Debian 7.0 (without systemd)
• Debian 8.0
• Ubuntu 12.04 (without systemd)
• Ubuntu 14.04
• Ubuntu 14.10
• Ubuntu 15.04
• Ubuntu 15.10 (available from 3.7.3)

Available modules (for both 3.6 and 3.7)

• syslog-ng-mod-amqp
• syslog-ng-mod-geoip
• syslog-ng-mod-graphite
• syslog-ng-mod-journal
• syslog-ng-mod-json
• syslog-ng-mod-mongodb
• syslog-ng-mod-redis
• syslog-ng-mod-riemann
• syslog-ng-mod-smtp
• syslog-ng-mod-sql
• syslog-ng-mod-stomp

Modules available only for 3.7.1

• syslog-ng-mod-java
• syslog-ng-mod-elastic
• syslog-ng-mod-hdfs
• syslog-ng-mod-http
• syslog-ng-mod-kafka

Available modules from syslog-ng Incubator for the 3.6 series

• syslog-ng-mod-basicfuncs-plus
• syslog-ng-mod-java
• syslog-ng-mod-trigger
• syslog-ng-mod-rss
• syslog-ng-mod-perl
• syslog-ng-mod-python
• syslog-ng-mod-kafka
• syslog-ng-mod-lua

Modules for 3.7 are not available currently, we are working on that

Example

1. get release key

wget -qO -  http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/laszlo_budai:/syslog-ng/Debian_8.0/Release.key | sudo apt-key add -

2. add repo to APT sources

/etc/apt/sources.list.d/syslog-ng-obs.list
deb  http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/laszlo_budai:/syslog-ng/Debian_8.0 ./
apt-get update
apt-get install syslog-ng-core

You can replace Debian_8.0 to any of the supported systems. For Ubuntus there is a 'x' prefix, so the possible values are:

• Debian_7.0
• Debian_8.0
• xUbuntu_12.04
• xUbuntu_14.04
• xUbuntu_14.10
• xUbuntu_15.04
• xUbuntu_15.10 (from 3.7.3)