Re: Error download hostlist

[Christian Grothoff]

Hi Guilherme,

Good to know this was the problem. I've updated the instructions to
clarify this point better.

Thanks!

Christian

On 6/27/21 11:11 AM, Guilherme Macedo wrote:
> 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
>>>>>
>

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