Installing FOG on Debian Stretch fails

[lukebarone]

Server

• FOG Version: 1.4.0
• OS: Debian Stretch (9.0)

Description

Downloaded the latest tarball of the install. Extracted, ran the installfog.sh command. After confirming, I wait for it to install packages, and it fails to install php5 and its modules.

Debian Stretch does not have php version 5 available anymore.

Is there a known fix to get the install script to run? Will it work with PHP 7? This is a brand new VM, no other changes made.

[Wayne Workman]

Debian 9 stable is not yet released. However, looks like they will release next week. So I’ll get this worked into our daily tests.

[Wayne Workman]

Debian 9 has been added to the daily tests. You can see the daily test results using the dashboard link in my signature.

[Tom Elliott]

I don’t know why this was reported like this should’ve been fixed already. (No I don’t keep track of all Distribution release dates.)

I’ve fixed, and tested, the installer under Debian 9 RC-4. Knowing Debian tends to be very stable, I think this is suitable enough.

The working branch contains these fixes if you MUST install fog on Debian 9.

[plegrand]

@Tom-Elliott Just for information :
Is it possible to only upgrade debian , or is it better to reinstall everything from scratch ?

[lukebarone]

@plegrand it works now, on version 1.4.3

[Wayne Workman]

@plegrand said in Installing FOG on Debian Stretch fails:

Is it possible to only upgrade debian , or is it better to reinstall everything from scratch ?

You could do either. There are pros and cons for both. That said - I don’t test upgrading Debian that already has FOG installed - I only test installing fog on upgraded Debian. And upgrading always involves some risk.