Installing iRODS error

[Alexander Sullivan]

I'm following the instructions on how to install iRODS but I keep getting the error:

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree

Reading state information... Done

E: Unable to locate package irods-server

E: Unable to locate package irods-database-plugin-postgres

when using

wget -qO - https://packages.irods.org/irods-signing-key.asc | sudo apt-key add -

echo "deb [arch=amd64] https://packages.irods.org/apt/ $(lsb_release -sc) main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/renci-irods.list

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install irods-server irods-database-plugin-postgres

.

Any help on how to install iRODS please?

I'm running BASH on Ubuntu on Windows [10].  Thanks in advance ^,^ <3

[Terrell Russell]

Hi Alexander,

We haven't released packages for Ubuntu16 yet (other than the irods-externals we need for development) (they're coming ASAP).

Are you running Ubuntu16?

You may be able to install the packages from Ubuntu14 on Ubuntu16.

Terrell

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[Alexander Sullivan]

So I installed Ubuntu 14.04 on a separate computer to try and install iRODS and I am still getting the same error. 

And yes, I was originally running Ubuntu 16.

[Michael Stealey]

Might be worth having a look at the contents of the file created at: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/renci-irods.list

The apt package manager will likely be looking for “trusty” as the output of the “$(lsb_release -sc)” call, and if that isn’t the case it won’t find the iRODS packages for 14.04.

When doing this in docker using debian:jessie as the base image I needed to force this to be “trusty”, Reference from Dockerfile below:

— — 

# Install iRODS v.4.2.0

RUN wget -qO - https://packages.irods.org/irods-signing-key.asc | sudo apt-key add - \

    && echo "deb [arch=amd64] https://packages.irods.org/apt/ trusty main" | \

    sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/renci-irods.list \

    && sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y \

    irods-server \

    irods-database-plugin-postgres

— — 

Thanks,

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[Alexander Sullivan]

It worked, thank you Michael!