installing on my Ubuntu VPS kills plesk

[rickyholiday]

hi there, is there anyone able to help me setup sabnzbd on my remote ubuntu server? whenever i try to install it via apt-get install it tries to remove my webserver, plesk and the mail-servers.

after once just clicking trough the installation and having to use a backup to get everything running again - i leanred my lesson and read the installation prompt.
In order to install sabnzbd+ this happens:

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Die folgenden Pakete werden ENTFERNT:
  libpam-plesk plesk-base plesk-completion plesk-core plesk-dovecot
  plesk-dovecot-imap-driver plesk-l10n plesk-mail-qc-driver
  plesk-management-node plesk-roundcube plesk-service-node-utilities
  plesk-web-hosting pp-sitebuilder psa-firewall psa-libxml-proxy
  psa-locale-base-en-us psa-logrotate psa-mail-driver-common
  psa-php5-configurator psa-phpfpm-configurator psa-phpmyadmin psa-phppgadmin
  psa-proftpd psa-pylibplesk psa-qmail psa-qmail-rblsmtpd psa-spamassassin
  psa-updates psa-vhost psa-vpn psa-zendframework wpb-core wpb-headers
Die folgenden NEUEN Pakete werden installiert:
  consolekit javascript-common libavahi-compat-libdnssd1 libjs-excanvas
  libjs-jquery libjs-jquery-metadata libjs-jquery-tablesorter libjs-jquery-ui
  libjs-mochikit libjs-twitter-bootstrap libpam-ck-connector p7zip-full par2
  python-cheetah python-configobj python-dbus python-dbus-dev
  python-feedparser python-gi python-openssl python-utidylib python-yenc
  sabnzbdplus sabnzbdplus-theme-glitter sabnzbdplus-theme-plush
  sabnzbdplus-theme-smpl

[sander]

I would start by doing this:

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sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

So ... without installing SABnzbd. Because what you show could backlog maintenance, not related to SABnzbd

[jcfp]

Apparently at least one of those packages-to-be-removed (all plesk related??) specifies that it conflicts with something in the list of stuff-to-be-installed (sab and its n-th level dependencies). A quick search on packages.ubuntu.com suggests that none of the former are even part of ubuntu, making it next to impossible for me to find out what's going on.

Better take this question to the supplier of these plesk packages. Would be interested to hear about cause and/or a solution once you figured it out, if only for future cases with the same problem.

[rickyholiday]

so, i guess the javascript-common and plesk don't work side-by-side. Is there a way to install sabnzbd without the javascript-common? I guess all the needed stuff should be there since Java is installed and everything (mail, webserver, owncloud, minecraft-server) works like it's supposed to.

[jcfp]

Looks like https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepo ... bug=474913 although it would seem less intrusive ways exist around that than adding a conflicts with javascript-common.

Sab without javascript-common should be possible, as the latter is only suggested or recommended by some of those libjs-* packages rather than a hard dependency. Try this:

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apt-get -o APT::Install-Recommends=0 install libjs-excanvas libjs-jquery-metadata libjs-jquery-tablesorter libjs-jquery-ui libjs-mochikit
apt-get install sabnzbdplus

The idea is to install the libjs-* packages without pulling in any recommended stuff. Doing so should not have any adverse effects, because they only have such dependencies on javascript-common and among themselves. Afterwards upon installing sab (with its recommended deps), it finds the libjs-* stuff already installed thus hopefully avoiding any issue with javascript-common vs. plesk. If this approach doesn't work, just add all the packages-to-be-installed from your topic start minus javascript-common to the first command.

There may be more longterm and/or official ways to do this via apt-pinning javascript-common at a priority below zero, but the above should get sab installed just fine.