Installing current version on Ubuntu 17.10 fails

[mslinn]

After running this as per the installation instructions for Ubuntu 17.10:

 sudo apt-get update

The following error results:

E: The repository 'http://ppa.launchpad.net/ethereum/ethereum/ubuntu artful Release' does not have a Release file.
N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.
N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.

[karalabe]

17.10 got released yesterday :P

TL;DR We don't have binaries shipped for Artful, will add it to our build pipeline. Develop builds should start shipping immediately, stable will be done when we do our next release (usually 2 weeks, devcon may or may not postpone it). If you need a stable build now, you can grab one from our downloads page https://geth.ethereum.org/downloads/

[mslinn]

Not sure if you noticed that the error message I posted pertained to the PPA repo: it needs a Release file. Users can override the default behavior, with this:

$ sudo apt upgrade --allow-unauthenticated
$ sudo apt update --allow-unauthenticated

The installation still fails, however, for the reason you mentioned:

$ sudo apt --allow-unauthenticated install ethereum
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Package ethereum is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

E: Package 'ethereum' has no installation candidate

All this goes to say there are two issues to fix: making the PPA secure, and providing an Ubuntu 17.10 compatible .deb file.

[karalabe]

As I said, the ethereum package has not yet been pushed, since that requires a stable release. You can try ethereum-unstable to verify that the PPA is indeed working or not. That was pushed a few hours ago.

[karalabe]

I can take a look at the other issue, though that's news to me.

[dwayneem]

Current version still fails to install on Ubuntu 17.10

Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
tor : Depends: libevent-2.0-5 (>= 2.0.10-stable) but it is not installable
Depends: libssl1.1 (>= 1.1.0) but it is not installable
Recommends: tor-geoipdb but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: torsocks but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

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[karalabe]

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