[Q&A] Cannot install Agent Net Inventory on Ubuntu 20.04.5 LTS

[kenakung]

Documentation & bug reporting acknowledgment

Yes, I read it

Describe your problem

root@IT-P1127:~# sudo glpi-agent --list-tasks
sudo: glpi-agent: command not found

root@IT-P1127:~# sudo dpkg -i  glpi-agent-task-network_1.4-1_all.deb
(Reading database ... 269001 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack glpi-agent-task-network_1.4-1_all.deb ...
Unpacking glpi-agent-task-network (1:1.4-1) over (1:1.4-1) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of glpi-agent-task-network:
 glpi-agent-task-network depends on glpi-agent (>= 1:1.4-1); however:
  Package glpi-agent is not installed.

dpkg: error processing package glpi-agent-task-network (--install):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Processing triggers for man-db (2.9.1-1) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 glpi-agent-task-network

[g-bougard]

Hi @kenakung

as the output of dpkg is telling you, you're missing dependencies. With dpkg command, you'll have to install all dependencies by hand... You should better use apt command which will try to resolve dependencies, but you need to also install glpi-agent package.

But you can also simply use the glpi-agent linux perl installer which embeds all the required debian packages from the project and will launch apt for you. You only required to have perl installed on the system.