Attempt to install libcurl4 requires removal of proxmox-ve?

[molware]

I'm trying to install curl on my host because for some reason it's not installed, and I'm running into issues....


pveversion shows:
pve-manager/6.0-15/52b91481 (running kernel: 5.0.21-5-pve)

Attempt to run curl shows: curl
-bash: curl: command not found

Attempt to install curl: apt install curl
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
curl : Depends: libcurl4 (= 7.64.0-4) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

Attempt to fix broken packages: apt-get update --fix-missing
Hit:1 http://security.debian.org buster/updates InRelease
Hit:2 http://download.proxmox.com/debian/pve buster InRelease
Hit:3 http://download.proxmox.com/debian/ceph-luminous stretch InRelease
Hit:4 http://ftp.debian.org/debian buster InRelease
Hit:5 http://ftp.debian.org/debian buster-updates InRelease
Reading package lists... Done

Attempt to install libcurl4 dependency: apt install libcurl 4
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
[Long list of different packages]
The following packages will be REMOVED:
ceph ceph-base ceph-common ceph-mds ceph-mgr ceph-mon ceph-osd libcurl3
libpve-guest-common-perl libpve-storage-perl librgw2 proxmox-ve
pve-container pve-ha-manager pve-manager pve-qemu-kvm python-rgw
qemu-server spiceterm
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libcurl4
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 19 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/332 kB of archives.
After this operation, 456 MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y
W: (pve-apt-hook) !! WARNING !!
W: (pve-apt-hook) You are attempting to remove the meta-package 'proxmox-ve'!
W: (pve-apt-hook)
W: (pve-apt-hook) If you really want to permanently remove 'proxmox-ve' from
your system, run the following command
W: (pve-apt-hook) touch '/please-remove-proxmox-ve'
W: (pve-apt-hook) run apt purge proxmox-ve to remove the meta-package
W: (pve-apt-hook) and repeat your apt invocation.
W: (pve-apt-hook)
W: (pve-apt-hook) If you are unsure why 'proxmox-ve' would be removed, please
verify
W: (pve-apt-hook) - your APT repository settings
W: (pve-apt-hook) - that you are using 'apt full-upgrade' to upgrade yo
ur system
E: Sub-process /usr/share/proxmox-ve/pve-apt-hook returned an error code (1)
E: Failure running script /usr/share/proxmox-ve/pve-apt-hook/

I've never really seen this type of issue before. Some research shows that this issue occurs when trying to install a package that's already part of proxmox-ve package and conflicts so in order to install it tries to remove proxmox. In this case I still can't use curl..... What can I do about this?

 

[tom]

Hit:3 http://download.proxmox.com/debian/ceph-luminous stretch InRelease

You did something wrong on your update path, you still have stretch packages on your buster.?

 

[oguz]

hi,

did you install PVE on top of debian? you should remove the debian kernel with apt remove linux-image-amd64 'linux-image-4.19*'

 

[molware]

You did something wrong on your update path, you still have stretch packages on your buster.?

I've removed the stretch repository. I was previously editing /etc/apt/sources.list, and didn't notice the additional package in apt/sources.list.d. This hasn't resolved the issue yet unfortunately.

 

[molware]

hi,

did you install PVE on top of debian? you should remove the debian kernel with apt remove linux-image-amd64 'linux-image-4.19*'

I did not install on top of debian, I installed proxmox directly(via iso), and updated to 6.0 last month I believe from 5.4.

 

[fabian]

having libcurl4 or curl installed is not a problem - your system is probably only partially upgraded. can you post the output of "pveversion -v"?

 

[molware]

having libcurl4 or curl installed is not a problem - your system is probably only partially upgraded. can you post the output of "pveversion -v"?

Here is the output:

root@pve:~# pveversion -v
proxmox-ve: 6.0-2 (running kernel: 5.0.21-5-pve)
pve-manager: 6.0-15 (running version: 6.0-15/52b91481)
pve-kernel-helper: 6.0-12
pve-kernel-5.0: 6.0-11
pve-kernel-4.15: 5.3-3
pve-kernel-5.0.21-5-pve: 5.0.21-10
pve-kernel-5.0.21-4-pve: 5.0.21-9
pve-kernel-4.15.18-12-pve: 4.15.18-36
ceph: 12.2.12-pve1
ceph-fuse: 12.2.12-pve1
corosync: 3.0.2-pve4
criu: 3.11-3
glusterfs-client: 5.5-3
ksm-control-daemon: 1.3-1
libjs-extjs: 6.0.1-10
libknet1: 1.13-pve1
libpve-access-control: 6.0-5
libpve-apiclient-perl: 3.0-2
libpve-common-perl: 6.0-9
libpve-guest-common-perl: 3.0-3
libpve-http-server-perl: 3.0-3
libpve-storage-perl: 6.0-12
libqb0: 1.0.5-1
libspice-server1: 0.14.2-4~pve6+1
lvm2: 2.03.02-pve3
lxc-pve: 3.2.1-1
lxcfs: 3.0.3-pve60
novnc-pve: 1.1.0-1
proxmox-mini-journalreader: 1.1-1
proxmox-widget-toolkit: 2.1-1
pve-cluster: 6.0-9
pve-container: 3.0-14
pve-docs: 6.0-9
pve-edk2-firmware: 2.20191002-1
pve-firewall: 4.0-8
pve-firmware: 3.0-4
pve-ha-manager: 3.0-5
pve-i18n: 2.0-3
pve-qemu-kvm: 4.1.1-2
pve-xtermjs: 3.13.2-1
qemu-server: 6.1-1
smartmontools: 7.0-pve2
spiceterm: 3.1-1
vncterm: 1.6-1
zfsutils-linux: 0.8.2-pve2

 

[fabian]

you have ceph packages from our Stretch repository installed, instead of from our Buster repository.

 

[molware]

you have ceph packages from our Stretch repository installed, instead of from our Buster repository.

I see. Is there a way to reinstall using the buster repository without breaking anything, or do I need a new install?

 

[fabian]

I see. Is there a way to reinstall using the buster repository without breaking anything, or do I need a new install?

you just need to fix your repository configuration (including files in '/etc/apt/sources.list.d') and then run apt update; apt full-upgrade

 

[molware]

So, I did an apt update/apt full-upgrade after I removed the stretch repository a few days ago and I am still unable to install libcurl4. I removed all files in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ and performed apt update;apt full-upgrade.

I tried to install libcurl4 from a local .deb, and it requires libcurl3 to be removed. I try to apt remove libcurl3:amd64, and I get the same "attempting to remove proxmox-ve" error.

It appears that the packages ceph-common and librgw2 depend on libcurl3 which cannot be installed at the same time as libcurl4.

I can install a vast amount of other packages, just not libcurl4 due to the dependency issue.

Here is my sources.list:
There is nothing in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/

deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian buster main contrib
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian buster-updates main contrib

# PVE pve-no-subscription repository provided by proxmox.com,
# NOT recommended for production use
deb http://download.proxmox.com/debian/pve buster pve-no-subscription       
# security updates
deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security buster/updates main contrib

root@pve:~# pveversion -v
proxmox-ve: 6.1-2 (running kernel: 5.3.10-1-pve)
pve-manager: 6.1-3 (running version: 6.1-3/37248ce6)
pve-kernel-5.3: 6.0-12
pve-kernel-helper: 6.0-12
pve-kernel-5.0: 6.0-11
pve-kernel-5.3.10-1-pve: 5.3.10-1
pve-kernel-4.15: 5.3-3
pve-kernel-5.0.21-5-pve: 5.0.21-10
pve-kernel-4.15.18-12-pve: 4.15.18-36
ceph-fuse: 12.2.12-pve1
corosync: 3.0.2-pve4
criu: 3.11-3
glusterfs-client: 5.5-3
ifupdown: 0.8.35+pve1
ksm-control-daemon: 1.3-1
libjs-extjs: 6.0.1-10
libknet1: 1.13-pve1
libpve-access-control: 6.0-5
libpve-apiclient-perl: 3.0-2
libpve-common-perl: 6.0-9
libpve-guest-common-perl: 3.0-3
libpve-http-server-perl: 3.0-3
libpve-storage-perl: 6.1-2
libqb0: 1.0.5-1
libspice-server1: 0.14.2-4~pve6+1
lvm2: 2.03.02-pve3
lxc-pve: 3.2.1-1
lxcfs: 3.0.3-pve60
novnc-pve: 1.1.0-1
proxmox-mini-journalreader: 1.1-1
proxmox-widget-toolkit: 2.1-1
pve-cluster: 6.1-2
pve-container: 3.0-14
pve-docs: 6.1-3
pve-edk2-firmware: 2.20191002-1
pve-firewall: 4.0-9
pve-firmware: 3.0-4
pve-ha-manager: 3.0-8
pve-i18n: 2.0-3
pve-qemu-kvm: 4.1.1-2
pve-xtermjs: 3.13.2-1
qemu-server: 6.1-2
smartmontools: 7.0-pve2
spiceterm: 3.1-1
vncterm: 1.6-1
zfsutils-linux: 0.8.2-pve2

Update && full-upgrade

apt update && apt full-upgrade
Hit:1 http://security.debian.org/debian-security buster/updates InRelease
Hit:2 http://ftp.debian.org/debian buster InRelease
Hit:3 http://ftp.debian.org/debian buster-updates InRelease
Hit:4 http://download.proxmox.com/debian/pve buster InRelease
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
All packages are up to date.
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

 

[fabian]

you need to configure the PVE Ceph repository for Buster (see the upgrade notes).

 

[molware]

Thanks, I initially removed ceph.list from repositories, but this particular repository resolved my issue.

echo "deb http://download.proxmox.com/debian/ceph-luminous buster main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ceph.list