Re: Error download hostlist

[Guilherme Macedo]

Hi Christian.

Indeed I haven't updated /etc/apt/sources.list to include testing and unstable. 
I just followed Taler's doc without realizing this missing step - `which means 
you should use a system which at least includes unstable packages in its source 
list`.

Thanks for helping with this!

Now I have GNUnet working in both Debian and Ubuntu.
Best regards.

Guilherme Macedo



27 Jun 2021, 00:05 by grothoff@gnunet.org:

> Hi Guilherme,
>
> Did you actually update your /etc/apt/sources.list to include
> testing/unstable packages? Looks like you're _only_ on stable, which
> cannot satisfy our dependencies.
>
> /etc/apt/sources.list should contain lines like:
>
> deb http://ftp.ch.debian.org/debian/ testing main
> deb http://ftp.ch.debian.org/debian/ unstable main
>
> -Christian
>
> On 6/26/21 11:45 PM, Guilherme Macedo wrote:
>
>> Hi Christian.
>>
>> I tried to install in Debian stable, as according to the instructions in the 
>> doc, but it failed while trying to download the dependencies.
>>
>> # apt install -f -t sid gnunet
>> Reading package lists... Done
>> Building dependency tree      
>> Reading state information... Done
>> 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:
>> gnunet : Depends: libgnunet (= 0.14.1-1) but it is not going to be installed
>>           Depends: libc6 (>= 2.29) but 2.28-10 is to be installed
>>           Depends: libgnutls-dane0 (>= 3.7.0) but it is not going to be 
>> installed
>>           Depends: libgnutls30 (>= 3.7.0) but 3.6.7-4+deb10u7 is to be 
>> installed
>>           Depends: libsodium23 (>= 1.0.18) but 1.0.17-1 is to be installed
>> E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
>>
>> I tried to force the install, but I failed. Certainly it's trivial to fix, 
>> but I must admit that my Linux skills are a bit rusty. I've been using Mac 
>> for too long. Maybe it's time to switch back :)
>>
>> So I opted for the easy way, installed Ubuntu and used the package provided 
>> by Taler (v0.14.1 git-2a1a812f3). It worked like a charm!
>>
>> The only issue that I had, is that it complained that it could not create 
>> /var/log/gnunet.log. I just had to create it manually for GNUnet to finally 
>> work. Not sure if it's related to Taler's package or if I should open a bug 
>> report.
>>
>> I'll try another time to compile it again from source. Now it's time to play 
>> a bit with GNS and re:claimID :)
>>
>> Quick question, is there a doc about which ports are needed and used by 
>> GNUnet?
>> I'm asking in order to harden the server and only open the needed ones in 
>> the firewall.
>>
>> Best regards.
>>
>> Guilherme Macedo
>>
>>
>>
>> 25 Jun 2021, 08:12 by grothoff@gnunet.org:
>>
>>> I recommend installing a way more recent package, i.e. by following:
>>>
>>> https://docs.taler.net/taler-exchange-manual.html#installing-the-gnu-taler-binary-packages-on-debian
>>>
>>> And then running
>>>
>>> # apt install -t sid gnunet
>>>
>>> instead of
>>>
>>> # apt install -t sid taler-exchange
>>>
>>> ;-)
>>>
>>> Happy hacking!
>>>
>>> Christian
>>>
>>> On 6/25/21 12:05 AM, Guilherme Macedo via Mailinglist for GNUnet
>>> developers wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hey!
>>>>
>>>> I installed GNUnet v0.10.1 in Debian 10.10 from the package provided by 
>>>> the distro. However, for some reason I can't connect to the peer network 
>>>> since it can't download the hostlist. The returned error is:
>>>>
>>>> hostlist-645 WARNING Download of hostlist from 
>>>> `http://v10.gnunet.org/hostlist' failed: `Couldn't resolve host name'
>>>>
>>>> If I try to download it manually, I receive the same error.
>>>>
>>>> % curl http://v10.gnunet.org/hostlist    
>>>> curl: (6) Could not resolve host: v10.gnunet.org
>>>>
>>>> I've read the documentation, but I couldn't find a solution. Maybe the 
>>>> solution is trivial, so apologies in advance.
>>>>
>>>> Best regards.
>>>>
>>>> Guilherme Macedo
>>>>