[DRBD-user] drbd-dkms on Ubutu 20.04

[Paul D. O'Rorke]

Thanks Roland et al:

> The section you are quoting has 2 (!) lines. One is the apt
> command, the one before says:
>
> "For Ubuntu LTS, LINBIT offers a PPA repository at
> https://launchpad.net/~linbit/+archive/ubuntu/linbit-drbd9-stack. See
> Adding Launchpad PPA Repositories for more information."
>
> Did you enable it?
Doh!

Sorry.

* Paul O'Rorke*


On 2021-09-29 12:24 a.m., Roland Kammerer wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 28, 2021 at 03:46:53PM -0700, Paul D. O'Rorke wrote:
>> HI all,
>>
>> this page : https://linbit.com/drbd-user-guide/drbd-guide-9_0-en/#s-install-pkgs-ubuntu_linux <https://linbit.com/drbd-user-guide/drbd-guide-9_0-en/#s-install-pkgs-ubuntu_linux>
>> says to install drbd-utils drbd-dkms but apt is unable to locate the
>> drbd-dkms package:
>>
>>     $ sudo apt install drbd-utils drbd-dkms
>>     Reading package lists... Done
>>     Building dependency tree
>>     Reading state information... Done
>>     E: Unable to locate package drbd-dkms
> Hi Paul,
>
> 2 possibilities:
> - You are a customer and have our customer repos enabled: You would not
>    install via dkms as you would have access to pre-built binary kernel
>    modules. You could still use the dkms if you think compiling from
>    source helps (it does not). But in that case you would open a ticket
>    and not ask on drbd-user.
>
> - You are not a customer: Then you don't have access to pre-build kernel
>    modules, but you can use the dkms. Still you need to enable a (public)
>    repository that has the dkms package. For Ubuntu that would be [1].
>
> So my guess is you did not enable any special repos (customer or public)
> and expected the dkms package to be part of the Ubuntu base repos. Which
> it isn't. The section you are quoting has 2 (!) lines. One is the apt
> command, the one before says:
>
> "For Ubuntu LTS, LINBIT offers a PPA repository at
> https://launchpad.net/~linbit/+archive/ubuntu/linbit-drbd9-stack. See
> Adding Launchpad PPA Repositories for more information."
>
> Did you enable it?
>
> Regards, rck
> [1] https://launchpad.net/~linbit/+archive/ubuntu/linbit-drbd9-stack
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