Azure-cli: No release for tricia?

[shmink]

OS: Mint 19.3 tricia
Kernel: x86_64 Linux 5.3.0-42-generic

Err:12 https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/azure-cli tricia Release                                  
  404  Not Found [IP: 13.80.99.124 443]
...
E: The repository 'https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/azure-cli tricia Release' does not have a Release file.

Running curl -sL https://aka.ms/InstallAzureCLIDeb | sudo bash gives me the above error.

[yonzhan]

@fengzhou-msft please take a look.

[shmink]

Any update on this? @fengzhou-msft

[fengzhou-msft]

@shmink Currently we don't have packages for Mint. Please use pip install or try a Ubuntu package: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cli/azure/install-azure-cli-apt?view=azure-cli-latest#lsb_release-does-not-return-the-correct-base-distribution-version

[shmink]

It's based upon Ubuntu 18.04. That version will work, is there any kind of symlink or forwarder you can do on your end?

[fengzhou-msft]

@shmink We could add extra logic for Mint in the script. How can I know which Ubuntu it is based on? I assume there are other Mint versions as well.

[shmink]

Programatically

Also, this list normally helps me.

[shmink]

The command in the manual install process:

AZ_REPO=$(lsb_release -cs)
echo "deb [arch=amd64] https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/azure-cli/ $AZ_REPO main" |
    sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/azure-cli.list

The lsb_release -cs is the issue as it returns the codename for the distribution. Instead you could return the upstream release:

$ cat /etc/upstream-release/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=18.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=bionic
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 18.04 LTS"

And with a bit of regex:

$ cat /etc/upstream-release/lsb-release | grep -Po 'DISTRIB_CODENAME=\K.*' 
bionic

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I installed azure-cli simple with

echo "deb [arch=amd64] https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/azure-cli/ bionic main" |
    sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/azure-cli.list

for example.

[fengzhou-msft]

@shmink I can only access the tricia docker image and it does not have the /etc/upstream-release/lsb-release file. Instead I used this command: cat /etc/os-release | grep -Po 'UBUNTU_CODENAME=\K.*'. Can you confirm whether it works for your system as well?

[fengzhou-msft]

The script is updated. Please try with curl -sL https://aka.ms/InstallAzureCLIDeb | sudo bash on tricia.