packages.grasehotspot.org not reachable

[Manish Sethi]

Hi 

Thanks for your great work. Can you please check as the below link is not reachable. 

Tried the alternate solution of getting from github but due to some reasons git is not getting install on ubuntu 12.4.

http://packages.grasehotspot.org/pool/main/g/grase-repo/

Thanks and Regards

Manish

India

[Tim]

Hi Manish

That link works for me here in Australia.

What error are you getting? DNS? Timeout?

Regards

Tim

[Extrem BILLIONS-CITY]

Can I install grase on Ubuntu 22.04 ?

[Tim]

As explained on the website https://grasehotspot.org/, development has ceased at the moment. This unfortunately means it'll only run on older Ubuntu and Debian versions. From memory that's up to 18.04 which has now fallen out of support from Ubuntu.

Regards

Tim

[Manish Sethi]

Hi Tim

Thanks. Link seems to be working now. 

But somehow the installation is not possible on Ubuntu 12.04. Have been trying from last few days but no luck. 

Had been using Grase-Hotspot from last few years and had installed 2-3 number of times, but now installation is getting stuck. 

It gets into number of errors. Will be glad if you can provide your inputs 

1. dpkg gets into error. 

sudo dpkg -i grase-repo_1.8_all.deb

dpkg-deb: error: archive 'grase-repo_1.8_all.deb' contains not understood data member control.tar.xz, giving up
dpkg: error processing grase-repo_1.8_all.deb (--install):
subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
 grase-repo_1.8_all.deb

2. Tried alternate solution for above error which is in 2 steps

echo deb http://packages.grasehotspot.org/ purewhite main | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/grasehotspot.list

This works

sudo wget https://github.com/GraseHotspot/grase-repo/tree/master/key/grase.hotspot.2020.gpg -O /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/grase.hotspot.2020.gpg

Not working. giving following error

--2023-07-13 17:34:58--  https://github.com/GraseHotspot/grase-repo/tree/master/key/grase.hotspot.2020.gpg
Resolving github.com (github.com)... 20.207.73.82
Connecting to github.com (github.com)|20.207.73.82|:443... connected.
OpenSSL: error:1407742E:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:tlsv1 alert protocol version
Unable to establish SSL connection.

3. Tried some alternate solution, some risky ones as below but cant move ahead.

sudo apt-get update --allow-unauthenticated

manish@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install grase-www-portal
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:
 grase-www-portal : Depends: grase-conf-freeradius (>= 1.9.4) but it is not going to be installed
                    Depends: php5 but it is not installable
                    Depends: php-mdb2-driver-mysql but it is not installable
                    Depends: php-mdb2 but it is not installable
                    Depends: php-auth but it is not installable
                    Depends: php5-intl but it is not installable
                    Depends: php-gettext but it is not installable
                    Depends: javascript-common but it is not installable
                    Depends: dbconfig-common but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

Using same 12.04 CD which gave me a good install 3 years back. Tried with fresh 12.04 download on a VM and also on a standalone pc but still cant get pass these errors.

Is there a VM image which i can directly use?

Many thanks for your work. Will be great if you can provide your inputs.

Thanks and Regards

Manish 

India

[Manish Sethi]

Hi 

Just tried on Debian 6.0.10. Almost same errors. 

login as: root
ro...@192.168.0.124's password:
Linux debian 2.6.32-5-686 #1 SMP Tue May 13 16:33:32 UTC 2014 i686
root@debian:~# wget http://packages.grasehotspot.org/pool/main/g/grase-repo/grase-repo_1.8_all.deb
--2023-07-14 16:26:21--  http://packages.grasehotspot.org/pool/main/g/grase-repo/grase-repo_1.8_all.deb
Resolving packages.grasehotspot.org... 103.1.185.200
Connecting to packages.grasehotspot.org|103.1.185.200|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 8628 (8.4K) [application/vnd.debian.binary-package]
Saving to: `grase-repo_1.8_all.deb'

100%[===========================================================================>] 8,628       31.4K/s   in 0.3s

2023-07-14 16:26:22 (31.4 KB/s) - `grase-repo_1.8_all.deb' saved [8628/8628]

root@debian:~# dpkg -i grase-repo_1.8_all.deb
dpkg-deb: file `grase-repo_1.8_all.deb' contains ununderstood data member control.tar.xz, giving up

dpkg: error processing grase-repo_1.8_all.deb (--install):
 subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
 grase-repo_1.8_all.deb

root@debian:~#
root@debian:~#
root@debian:~#
root@debian:~# echo deb http://packages.grasehotspot.org/ purewhite main | tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/grasehotspot.list

deb http://packages.grasehotspot.org/ purewhite main

root@debian:~#
root@debian:~#
root@debian:~#
root@debian:~#
root@debian:~# wget https://github.com/GraseHotspot/grase-repo/tree/master/key/grase.hotspot.2020.gpg -O /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/grase.hotspot.2020.gpg
--2023-07-14 16:27:44--  https://github.com/GraseHotspot/grase-repo/tree/master/key/grase.hotspot.2020.gpg
Resolving github.com... 20.207.73.82
Connecting to github.com|20.207.73.82|:443... connected.

OpenSSL: error:1407742E:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:tlsv1 alert protocol version
Unable to establish SSL connection.

Thanks 

Manish

[Manish Sethi]

Hi Tim

Just saw you mentioned support for 14.04 on "hotspot installion page". Got confused with 12.04 which is written on "ubuntu server installation page" and which i had earlier also. 

v3 with Ubuntu 14.04 works. Thanks for your amazing work.

I followed the below steps:-

1.

wget http://packages.grasehotspot.org/pool/main/g/grase-repo/grase-repo_1.8_all.deb

2. 

echo deb http://packages.grasehotspot.org/ purewhite main | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/grasehotspot.list

3.

sudo wget https://github.com/GraseHotspot/grase-repo/tree/master/key/grase.hotspot.2020.gpg -O /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/grase.hotspot.2020.gpg

4. 

sudo apt-get update

5. 

sudo apt-get install grase-www-portal grase-conf-freeradius

Rest steps as metioned by you on "hotspot installion page".

14.04 taken from :-

https://old-releases.ubuntu.com/releases/14.04.0/ubuntu-14.04-server-i386.iso

Thanks 

Manish

[sberniz]

Hi Tim and all. Since the latest ubuntu it works is 14.04 and i already have a newr version, (I dont want to really go back) i wonder if anyone was successful on runing it on  docker? 

[Deepak Kaushik]

Yes, can anyone here help in running grase on latest ubuntu versions or running current version using docker. Because there are some hardwares which does not support older kernel version than 5

[sberniz]

I almost got it working on docker using host network.. however, when I run the first run, it does not detect my second interface..  i have it 'up' and manual/? any help appreciated