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Dependency installation steps for Debian GNU/Linux 9.x (stretch)

This document assumes you are starting from a fresh install of Debian in the 9.x series.

Most recently tested 2019-02-13 with the following debian release:

$ lsb_release --description
Description:	Debian GNU/Linux 9.7 (stretch)

Install VirtualBox

Virtualbox is the configured VM provider in this project's Vagrantfile.

Add Oracle's VirtualBox apt repository to your system's apt sources:

sudo apt-add-repository "deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian $(lsb_release -sc) contrib"

Verify that the source was added:

$ grep -iR virtualbox /etc/apt/sources.list*
/etc/apt/sources.list:deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian stretch contrib
/etc/apt/sources.list:# deb-src http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian stretch contrib

Download and register the public gpg key used by Oracle to secure the above repository:

$ wget -q https://www.virtualbox.org/download/oracle_vbox_2016.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add -
OK

Verify that the key was added

$ apt-key list "B9F8 D658 297A F3EF C18D  5CDF A2F6 83C5 2980 AECF"
pub   rsa4096 2016-04-22 [SC]
      B9F8 D658 297A F3EF C18D  5CDF A2F6 83C5 2980 AECF
uid           [ unknown] Oracle Corporation (VirtualBox archive signing key) <info@virtualbox.org>
sub   rsa4096 2016-04-22 [E]

Update your local apt package metadata

$ sudo apt update
[...]

This command will show the available versions of virtualbox from the apt repository:

$ sudo apt install virtualbox
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Package virtualbox is a virtual package provided by:
  virtualbox-6.0 6.0.4-128413~Debian~stretch
  virtualbox-5.2 5.2.26-128414~Debian~stretch
  virtualbox-5.1 5.1.38-122592~Debian~stretch
  virtualbox-5.0 5.0.40-115130~Debian~stretch
You should explicitly select one to install.

E: Package 'virtualbox' has no installation candidate

Decide on the version you want and specify the version number to install it:

$ sudo apt install virtualbox-6.0 -y
[...]

Source: https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads#Debian-basedLinuxdistributions

Most recently tested 2019-02-24 with the following virtualbox release:

$ virtualbox --help
Oracle VM VirtualBox VM Selector v6.0.4
[...]

Install git

$ sudo apt install git

Most recently tested 2019-02-13 with the following git release:

$ git --version
git version 2.11.0

Install Vagrant 2.0.3 or higher

As of this writing, the Vagrant version that Debian uses in its "stretch" release is 1.9.x so we suggest getting a package from Vagrant's web site:

wget -c https://releases.hashicorp.com/vagrant/2.2.3/vagrant_2.2.3_x86_64.deb
sudo dpkg -i vagrant_2.2.3_x86_64.deb
rm vagrant_2.2.3_x86_64.deb

Most recently tested 2019-02-13 with the following vagrant release:

$ vagrant --version
Vagrant 2.2.3

Install pip (python package manager)

We'll use this to install ansible, so we can be on a more current version of ansible than the one Debian provides with its 'stretch' distribution.

sudo apt install python-pip

Most recently tested 2019-02-13 with the following pip release:

$ pip --version
pip 9.0.1 from /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages (python 2.7)

Install ansible 2.4.x or higher

pip install --user -U ansible

This will place an ansible executable in ~/.local/bin, so add the following to ~/.bashrc:

# set PATH so it includes user's private .local/bin if it exists
if [ -d "$HOME/.local/bin" ] ; then
    PATH="$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH"
fi

Then restart your shell or source .bashrc in your shell session:

$ source .bashrc

Most recently tested 2019-02-13 with the following ansible release:

$ ansible --version
ansible 2.7.7
...

Install GnuPG 2.x (2.1.18 or greater)

This is likely already installed and runnable via 'gpg'

$ gpg --version
gpg (GnuPG) 2.1.18

We want to be able to run it using the command 'gpg2'. For that we can install the gnupg2 package.

According to the description of that package, “This is a dummy transitional package that provides symlinks from gpg2 to gpg.” https://packages.debian.org/stretch/gnupg2

$ sudo apt install gnupg2

Most recently tested 2019-02-13 with the following GnuPG release:

$ gpg2 --version
gpg (GnuPG) 2.1.18
...

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