[SOLVED] Installing ifupdown2 in PVE 6.2-4

[tuathan]

I am trying to install ifupdown2 on my proxmox hosts but when I try to do it with apt I get the follow:

# apt install ifupdown2
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
python-argcomplete
Suggested packages:
python-gvgen
The following packages will be REMOVED:
ifenslave ifupdown libproxmox-acme-perl libpve-access-control libpve-cluster-api-perl libpve-cluster-perl libpve-common-perl libpve-guest-common-perl
libpve-http-server-perl libpve-storage-perl librados2-perl proxmox-ve pve-cluster pve-container pve-firewall pve-ha-manager pve-manager pve-xtermjs qemu-server
The following NEW packages will be installed:
ifupdown2 python-argcomplete
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 19 to remove and 73 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/225 kB of archives.
After this operation, 14.3 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 your 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

Please can someone advise as I'd like to use ifupdown2 to set up vxlan.

Reference: https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Network_Configuration

 

[tuathan]

Since I don't have a subscription at the moment I had to do this first:


Make a copy of the pve-enterprise.list file


run: cd /etc/apt/sources.list.d/
run: cp pve-enterprise.list pve-no-subscription.list


run: nano pve-enterprise.list and comment the line using # at the beginning, save and exit (this is for reverting to enterprise in case you pay for a subscription)
run: nano pve-no-subscription.list

change the following

• https --> http
• enterprise --> download
• pve-enterprise --> pve-no-subscription

It should look like this

deb http://download.proxmox.com/debian/pve buster pve-no-subscription

 

[Zubin Singh Parihar]

Why do these packages need to be remove when you install 'ifupdown2':

ifenslave ifupdown libproxmox-acme-perl libpve-access-control libpve-cluster-api-perl libpve-cluster-perl libpve-common-perl libpve-guest-common-perl
libpve-http-server-perl libpve-storage-perl librados2-perl proxmox-ve pve-cluster pve-container pve-firewall pve-ha-manager pve-manager pve-xtermjs qemu-server

Aren't they required? makes me nervous to install this package...

 

[borpin]

Why do these packages need to be remove when you install 'ifupdown2':

ifenslave ifupdown libproxmox-acme-perl libpve-access-control libpve-cluster-api-perl libpve-cluster-perl libpve-common-perl libpve-guest-common-perl
libpve-http-server-perl libpve-storage-perl librados2-perl proxmox-ve pve-cluster pve-container pve-firewall pve-ha-manager pve-manager pve-xtermjs qemu-server

Aren't they required? makes me nervous to install this package...

I have exactly the same question.

I had previously added in the no-subscription repository, but that entry had mysteriously disappeared.

Adding it in again and running an apt-update, trying the ifupdown2 install (dry run) - it worked fine.

I have no idea how the deb entry got removed (the empty file was there) - a pve update did that perhaps?

 

[dcsapak]

you probably do not have the correct repositories configured[0] and it tries to install the wrong ifupdown2 package
0: https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Package_Repositories

 

[ixproxmox]

you probably do not have the correct repositories configured[0] and it tries to install the wrong ifupdown2 package
0: https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Package_Repositories

I get this on all my installs with 6.3. Out of the box...

 

[Ramalama]

ifenslave ifupdown gets both replaced by ifupdown2.

Thats normal and intended. The other packages shouldn't be removed. You have then something wrong if anything starting with pve-* will get removed if you try to install ifupdown2.

Cheers

 

[borpin]

I get this on all my installs with 6.3. Out of the box...

Yes you will. You need to remove the enterprise add the no-subscription repositories (assuming you have no subscription).

sed -i 's/^\([^#].*\)/# \1/g' /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pve-enterprise.list

echo "deb http://download.proxmox.com/debian/pve buster pve-no-subscription" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pve-no-subscription.list

apt update && apt dist-upgrade -y && apt autoremove --purge -y

My error stemmed from the fact the repo list seemed to revert to default and I needed to do this again.

 

[maxprox]

Hi there,

for some off my 6.x installation (befor the upgrade ...) this "only install steps" are not enough.
My working solution are:
1:

apt update && apt full-upgrade

2:

apt install ifupdown2  -y

3:

apt purge ifupdown

4:

 ifreload -a

5:

apt install ifupdown2 --reinstall  -y

without the last three steps I do not get an automatic enabled networking.service and after the next reboot ... :-( the Server is offline

Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/networking.service → /lib/systemd/system/networking.service.
Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/network-online.target.wants/networking.service → /lib/systemd/system/networking.service.

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