jitsi-meet unmet package dependencies Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

Created on 10 Apr 2020 · 18Comments · Source: jitsi/jitsi-meet

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Description

apt on fresh ubuntu 18.04 cant install jitsi

Current behavior

When trying to install jitsi following the steps at https://jitsi.org/downloads/ using the repositories apt fails with this message:

root@ip-172-31-35-171:/home/ubuntu# sudo apt-get -y install jitsi-meet
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:
 jitsi-meet : PreDepends: jitsi-videobridge2 (= 2.1-169-ga28eb88e-1) but it is not going to be installed
              Recommends: jitsi-meet-turnserver (= 1.0.3992-1) but it is not going to be installed or
                          apache2 but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

Expected Behavior

The same instructions worked a few days ago when I setup a test server. Same OS.

Possible Solution

Provide the required version of jitsi-videobridge2 over the package repository

Steps to reproduce

1 ) Setup a EC2 t2.small instance with Ubuntu 18.04 (Marketplace Version)
2) wget -qO - https://download.jitsi.org/jitsi-key.gpg.key | sudo apt-key add -
3) sudo sh -c "echo 'deb https://download.jitsi.org stable/' > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/jitsi-stable.list"
4) sudo apt-get -y update
5) sudo apt-get -y install jitsi-meet

Environment details

OS: Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS

universe distribution component was activated

packaging

Source

wehmoen

Most helpful comment

Can someone do

apt-get update 
apt-get install jitsi-meet

Does it work now?

damencho on 10 Apr 2020

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All 18 comments

Just tried to do an install on the same version of Ubuntu server and got the same result. I can also confirm it did work a few days ago when I installed on another server.

To fix:
sudo sh -c "echo 'deb https://download.jitsi.org unstable/' > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/jitsi-unstable.list" to get it to install apt update apt install jitsi-meet -y

brimur on 10 Apr 2020

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Just ran into the same issue AWS Ubuntu 18.04.3, seems to be an issue with latest stable release.

iakashpaul on 10 Apr 2020

I just pushed new stable and something went wrong. Looking at it fixing it ASAP. Will let you know

damencho on 10 Apr 2020

Same here on a fresh install on debian 10:

apt-get install jitsi-meet

Die folgenden Pakete haben unerfüllte Abhängigkeiten:
jitsi-meet : Hängt ab von (vorher): jitsi-videobridge2 (= 2.1-169-ga28eb88e-1) soll aber nicht installiert werden

ghost on 10 Apr 2020

Yes, there is a problem with the release, not sure where it got wrong. Trying first to fix it and then will try to figure out.

damencho on 10 Apr 2020

wow. glad to hear its not just me making a stupid mistake. thanks for looking into this guys!

wehmoen on 10 Apr 2020

Oh boy, I thought I am crazy :D

SeeUnsharp on 10 Apr 2020

Sorry all, seems the jvb somehow is not getting picked. Still struggling, stay tight.

damencho on 10 Apr 2020

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It is something with the download server ... Mirror of the repo works.

damencho on 10 Apr 2020

Can someone do

apt-get update 
apt-get install jitsi-meet

Does it work now?

damencho on 10 Apr 2020

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It must be some cache or anything ... not obvious at the moment ...

damencho on 10 Apr 2020

yes seems to work - thanks a lot!

ghost on 10 Apr 2020

Pfew, sorry for the trouble. I'm double-checking on a fresh VM now.

damencho on 10 Apr 2020

Yep worked now! Thanks a ton!

iakashpaul on 10 Apr 2020

Thank you all for the report and patience!

damencho on 10 Apr 2020

That was fast, thanks!

SeeUnsharp on 10 Apr 2020

This release should fix all the Debian 10, problems people were facing with wrong jvb password and turnserver credentials are the most problematic ones.
But as we are moving fast these days, new releases will be following. Including new stuff.

damencho on 10 Apr 2020

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Same problem is coming again @damencho