Package installation fails when attempting to download GeoIP database files
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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geoip-database-contrib (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Selecting previously unselected package geoip-database-
dpkg: considering removing geoip-database in favour of geoip-database-
dpkg: yes, will remove geoip-database in favour of geoip-database-
(Reading database ... 46544 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack geoip-database-
Unpacking geoip-database-
Setting up geoip-database-
debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Dialog
debconf: (TERM is not set, so the dialog frontend is not usable.)
debconf: falling back to frontend: Readline
debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Readline
debconf: (This frontend requires a controlling tty.)
debconf: falling back to frontend: Teletype
Downloading: http://
Failed to download http://
Downloading: http://
Downloading: http://
Failed to download http://
Downloading: http://
Downloading: http://
Failed to download http://
Downloading: http://
Creating config file /etc/cron.
update-
dpkg: error processing package geoip-database-
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
geoip-
This is due to Maxmind retiring their v1 geolite database.
https:/
The new versions are at URLs but - more importantly - are in a completely different format.
Oops, was meant for geoip-database- contrib. My bad.