Ubuntu
snort package

Snort fails to install in non-interactive

Bug #1570517 reported by Thomas d'Otreppe on 2016-04-14

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	snort (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Ubuntu: 16.04 64 bit up to date as of time of reporting.
Host: VMware Workstation

Running DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get install snort -y fails and tracing it back tells me the regular expression to check for interfaces is outdated and needs to be updated (my network interface name is ens32).

This bug has been reported at least since 8.10 (~7 years ago) countless times and it's a fairly easy fix for anybody doing packages: #290456, #572639, #402936, #465340, #465387, #477590, #524992, #566543, #585523, #617897, #627458, #642682, #655116, #657843 amongst others. pretty much 90% of the bug reports on this first page are related to this issue https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/snort

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Please fix.

Revision history for this message

Thomas d'Otreppe (thomas-dotreppe) wrote on 2016-04-14:

ubuntu_16_04_apt-get_install_snort_noninteractive.txt Edit (16.3 KiB, text/plain)

Revision history for this message

Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2020-05-20:

This bug was fixed in the package snort - 2.9.15.1-2

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snort (2.9.15.1-2) unstable; urgency=medium

  * debian/control:
     - Add libssl-dev as Build-Dep (Closes:#956812)
     - Update Standards version
     - Fix Git-VCS url
     - Make snort-doc Multi-Arch: foreign
  * debian/patches/documentation_debian: Document the use of /etc/default/snort

-- Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <email address hidden> Sat, 18 Apr 2020 11:56:13 +0200