Known working Debian version for NAV install? / Dependency issue trying to install NAV on Debian 11.11

[oysteingy]

Hi,

Tried to follow the guidelines https://nav.uninett.no/install-instructions/#debian for Debian install. However, I quickly run into dependency issues. Anyone who could point me in a direction for a known working setup?

cat /etc/debian_version

11.11

apt-get install nav

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
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:
nav : Depends: libgsmsd8 but it is not installable
Recommends: apache2 but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: libapache2-mod-wsgi-py3 but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: graphite-carbon but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: graphite-web but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: smbclient but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: dhcping but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

[lunkwill42]

Hi @oysteingy, the libgsmsd8 package temporarily disappeared from Debian in version 11 (it was there in 10, and it's there in 12). The package was added to the backports repository after-the-fact, so in order for the NAV package to install on Debian 11 you will need to add the bullseye-backports repository to your apt lists.

Install instructions above have been updated - thanks for reminding us this was necessary! :)