Introduction

This chapter describes how you can install syslog-ng OSE on Debian and on Ubuntu operating systems from our APT repository.

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Install syslog-ng OSE from APT repository

The syslog-ng OSE 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 .

Supported Debian and Ubuntu releases

  • 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)

Available modules (for both 3.6 and 3.7)

  • 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

Modules available only for 3.7.1

  • syslog-ng-mod-java
  • syslog-ng-mod-elastic
  • syslog-ng-mod-hdfs
  • syslog-ng-mod-http
  • syslog-ng-mod-kafka

Available modules from syslog-ng OSE Incubator for the 3.6 series

  • 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

Modules for 3.7 are not available currently, we are working on that

Example

  1. get release key

     wget -qO -  http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/laszlo_budai:/syslog-ng/Debian_8.0/Release.key | sudo apt-key add -

  2. 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)

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