SSH install problem

[Member Pumukli]

Today I installed Antix 21 on an old HP thinclient. Long time ago I successfully installed and run (for years!) AntiX 13.2 on this hardware and today I tried to repeat the success with AntiX 21.

The install (core system, I use it as a headless server) went smoothly, no problems encountered, even the post-install “apt-get update – apt-get upgrade” went well.

Then as the first step, I tried to install an ssh server on the machine, when I encountered an unresolvable error.

apt-get install ssh (and openssh-server as well) gave the following error message:

“Unresolvable dependency: openssh-client depends on libfido2-1 (>=1.5.0) but it is not installable. E: the problem can’t be resolved.” – or something like that, the error message was translated to my locale and I tried to re-translate it back to English.

How could I resolve an unresolvable error?

[Member Robin]

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Hello Pumukli,

try using antiX 19 instead. *Maybe* that helps.

I encountered similar problems with other programs which kept me from switching to antiX 21 still by now. (E.g. right now I’m about to downgrade an 64bit amd machine to antiX 19, since I can’t find any way to install a functioning version of virtualbox on antiX 21, including trying to build the needed version from source for this cpu. There always are some unresolvable dependency errors, or kernel related issues. And qemu is not an alternative, for me it produces general protection faults in the guest windows systems constantly.)

So you also might end up with downgrading…

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[Member techore]

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I am not able to reproduce this problem. I successfully installed without errors. Not doubting you for obviously something is wrong.

sudo apt list --installed |grep -e libfido -e openssh
libfido2-1/stable,now 1.6.0-2 amd64 [installed,automatic]
openssh-client/bullseye,bullseye,now 1:8.4p1-5.0nosystemd1 amd64 [installed]
openssh-server/bullseye,bullseye,now 1:8.4p1-5.0nosystemd1 amd64 [installed]
openssh-sftp-server/bullseye,bullseye,now 1:8.4p1-5.0nosystemd1 amd64 [installed,automatic]

I have ran into similar issues when I forgot to ‘apt update’ prior to ‘apt install’.

[Member Robin]

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techore wrote:

forgot to ‘apt update’ prior to ‘apt install’.

Well, Pumukli clearly stated he has done this:

Pumukli wrote:

the post-install “apt-get update – apt-get upgrade” went well.

But, you are right, techore: By any chance, are you, Pumukli, on a live system? This might cause some confusion, since the local apt database cache is cleared after each reboot. So you have repeatedly to apt-get update if you reboot, even when you think you have done this some minutes before already (which would be fine on an installed system). Otherwise you can easily face issues like you describe.

Windows is like a submarine. Open a window and serious problems will start.

[Member ModdIt]

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Aeons ago I ran in to a version conflict with open ssh. was able to fix with below method.
No warranty as months ago. :-). That was on antiX 21.

sudo apt-get remove openssh-server openssh-client --purge && sudo apt-get autoremove && sudo apt-get autoclean && sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install openssh-server openssh-client

• This reply was modified 7 months, 1 week ago by ModdIt.

[Forum Admin anticapitalista]

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Cannot reproduce this either.
I used antiX-21-core (32bit), did an apt update and apt dist-upgrade
Then apt install ssh

Make sure all your repos are working.

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