This chapter describes how you can install syslog-ng on Debian and on Ubuntu operating systems from our 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 .
- 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)
- 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
- syslog-ng-mod-java
- syslog-ng-mod-elastic
- syslog-ng-mod-hdfs
- syslog-ng-mod-http
- syslog-ng-mod-kafka
- 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
- get release key
wget -qO - http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/laszlo_budai:/syslog-ng/Debian_8.0/Release.key | sudo apt-key add -
- 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)