On Jaunty (9.04) Server, the daemon dependency is picked up correctly.

But Hudson doesn't start. Changing hudson user's shell to /bin/bash instead of /bin/false in /etc/passwd seems to fix it.

My case:

I work on a Debian Lenny dist (stable)

I have updated the sources list following the instructions above and have applied the patch attached to the bug

Then, I have had to install the sun-java6-bin package to get working. In my experience the hudson does not start with the debian gnu java. I obtained an exception related to this message:

" Could not instantiate converter : com.thoughtworks.xstream.converters.extended.DurationConverter : null"

Of course, I have changed the symbolic link at /usr/bin/java by one which links directly to the java from sun.

Cheers.

This fix worked for me when installing Hudson on Debian Lenny: "After installing the hudson deb on Ubuntu server Jaunty 8.10 [Debian Lenny in my case], when I tried to run the init script /etc/init.d/hudson start, nothing would be printed and the server would not start. No log file was created under /var/log/hudson and no pid file was created under /var/run/hudson. I eventually discovered that if i set the hudson user's shell to /bin/bash instead of /bin/false in /etc/passwd everything works fine. Hope this saves someone else some trouble."

Also, this is a good resource: http://weblogs.java.net/blog/2008/06/11/debian-packages-hudson

hi there.
I've noticed the debian repository responds with response "302", which is redirect related.
apt does not support redirects as of now. Debian stabe apt does not.
I am currently forced to download the file manually, although it is found in the repository.

Can somebody please change the setup so that not a redirect is returned, but the file?

Thanks.

Here's a workaround for lenny: you need: apache2, mod_proxy.

Then create a file /etc/apache2/sites-available/hudson-deb with this content:

<VirtualHost *:80>
  ServerName hudson-deb.local
  RewriteEngine On
  RewriteRule ^/debian/binary/(.+\.deb) http://download.hudson-labs.org/debian/$1 [P]
  RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://pkg.hudson-labs.org$1 [P]
  <Proxy *>
    Order Deny,Allow
    Allow from all
  </Proxy>
</VirtualHost>

Edit /etc/hosts and add hudson-deb.local as the last term on the line containing 127.0.0.1 (separate it with a space).

Then enable the proxy and the site and restart the apache:

a2enmod proxy_http
a2ensite hudson-deb
/etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Then you just add the file /etc/apt/sources.list.d/hudson.list with the following content:

deb http://hudson-deb.local/debian binary/

And off you go with:

apt-get update && apt-get install hudson

There is an error in Packages.gz

I get the following message when trying to install on ubuntu:

Get:2 http://hudson-ci.org/debian/ binary/ hudson 2.2.0 [608MB]
Fetched 60.9MB in 10min 13s (99.2kB/s)
Failed to fetch http://hudson-ci.org/debian/binary/hudson_2.2.0_all.deb Size mismatch
E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing?

This is an extract from http://hudson-ci.org/debian/binary/Packages.gz :

Installed-Size: 60806
Depends: daemon, adduser, java-virtual-machine, java2-runtime, psmisc
Filename: binary/hudson_2.2.0_all.deb
Size: 608066698

The size is obviously wrong. I thought one used tools for generating the package contents..

I am trying to install Hudson on Ubuntu 10.04 and having the same issue as Patrick.  Any ideas?  Thanks.

sudo apt-get install hudson

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree

Reading state information... Done

The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:

  linux-headers-2.6.32-37-generic linux-headers-2.6.32-33-server

  linux-headers-2.6.32-33 linux-headers-2.6.32-37

  linux-headers-2.6.32-37-server

Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.

The following extra packages will be installed:

  daemon gcj-4.4-base gcj-4.4-jre-headless gcj-4.4-jre-lib libgcj-common

  libgcj10

Suggested packages:

  fastjar gcj-4.4-jdk libgcj10-awt libgcj10-dbg

The following NEW packages will be installed:

  daemon gcj-4.4-base gcj-4.4-jre-headless gcj-4.4-jre-lib hudson

  libgcj-common libgcj10

0 upgraded, 7 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

Need to get 632MB of archives.

After this operation, 130MB of additional disk space will be used.

Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y

WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!

  hudson

Install these packages without verification [y/N]? y

Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/universe daemon 0.6.3-1 [112kB]

Get:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/main gcj-4.4-base 4.4.3-1ubuntu4.1 [109kB]

Get:3 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/main libgcj-common 1:4.4.3-1ubuntu1 [122kB]

Get:4 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/main libgcj10 4.4.3-1ubuntu4.1 [13.6MB]

Get:5 http://hudson-ci.org/debian/ binary/ hudson 2.2.0 [608MB]

Get:6 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/main gcj-4.4-jre-headless 4.4.3-1ubuntu4.1 [59.3kB]

Get:7 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/main gcj-4.4-jre-lib 4. 4.3-1ubuntu4.1 [10.5MB]

Fetched 85.2MB in 3min 43s (381kB/s)

Failed to fetch http://hudson-ci.org/debian/binary/hudson_2.2.0_all.deb  Size mismatch

E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing?

I had the same error

Failed to fetch http://hudson-ci.org/debian/binary/hudson_2.2.0_all.deb  Size mismatch

But I have workaround for this (this guide is for dummies), For advances users ; just download .deb and use -f switch to get broken dependencies!!

First download the hudson_x.x.all.deb file by navigating in to this url:  http://hudson-ci.org/

Click on the Ubuntu/Debian link

After downloading save it in to a convenient place

Navigate to that place and use following commands one after the other

• sudo sh -c "echo 'deb http://hudson-ci.org/debian binary/' > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/hudson.list"
• sudo apt-get update
• sudo apt-get install hudson

if system complains

use this command

sudo apt-get -f install hudson

Now it should download the hudson for you now. If you have java already configured it should start hudson in port 80 in your localhost

feel free to correct me if theres anything wrong

thanks

Sorry for the confusion.

Try running the hudson_x.x.all.deb as sudo

System will complain about missing dependencies ask you try an alternative command with -f switch..

Try that

That should work.