Hello, I was trying to install Zeek 6.0.3 in Ubuntu 22.04 using binary packages and following the instructions of the official documentation. However, I was unable to conclude the process of installation. After that, I successfully installed Zeek 6.0.3 following the instructions of this blog post, which has instructions for installing from the source. I deleted all files related to Zeek before installing from source.
However, when I try to install other softwares, for instance, I ran sudo apt install autoconf, and i got this response:
Reading package lists… Done Building dependency tree… Done Reading state information… Done You might want to run ‘apt --fix-broken install’ to correct these. The following packages have unmet dependencies:
zeek-6.0-core-dev : Depends: libbroker-6.0-dev (= 6.0.3-0) but it is not going to be installed* E: Unmet dependencies. Try ‘apt --fix-broken install’ with no packages (or specify a solution).
When I try to run sudo apt --fix-broken install, I get this response:
trying to overwrite ‘/opt/zeek/include/broker/address.hh’, which * is also in package libbroker-lts-dev 6.0.3-0 dpkg-deb: error: paste subprocess was killed by signal (Broken pip e) Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/libbroker-6.0-dev_6.0.3-0_amd64.deb* E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
So, I may be wrong, but it seems that there is a directory error, since the system tries to access /opt/zeek , but the Zeek files are located in /usr/local/zeek.
How could I solve this issue? I would like to try to solve the issue over installing Zeek again from source, since this process can take a really long while. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
it seems like you have been trying to install conflicting Zeek packages. You can either install the zeek, zeek-6.0, or the zeek-lts package - but they cannot be installed simultaneously.
Try removing the “libbroker-lts-dev” package, which conflicts with “libbroker-6.0-dev” and then try the apt fixing operation again.
This partially is my fault - this shows that there is insufficient flagging between some conflicting Zeek packages. I will try to add these conflicts to the package - which might make these kind of errors auto-fixable by apt.
I just tried to run sudo apt remove libbroker-lts-dev, still I got the error response:
You might want to run ‘apt --fix-broken install’ to correct these. The following packages have unmet dependencies:
zeek-6.0-core-dev : Depends: libbroker-6.0-dev (= 6.0.3-0) but it is not going to be installed* E: Unmet dependencies. Try ‘apt --fix-broken install’ with no packages (or specify a solution).
I also tried to delete manually the files related to libbroker-lts-dev, however the error message persisted.
I think that installing Zeek again may not be the sollution, since i was unable to install from binary packages and if I install from source again the error will persist, because is related to the directory which contains Zeek files.
trying to overwrite ‘/opt/zeek/include/broker/address.hh’, which is also in pac* kage libbroker-lts-dev 6.0.3-0 dpkg-deb: error: paste subprocess was killed by signal (Broken pipe) Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/libbroker-6.0-dev_6.0.3-0_amd64.deb* E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
I was trying to remove libbroker-lts-dev using the command sudo apt remove libbroker-lts-dev, but the depency-related error persisted, however, I successfully removed the package executing sudo dpkg --remove --force-depends libbroker-lts-dev. Now I am able to install other programs. Thank you for your help!
