The --oracle-repo command line option failed

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Reply for users:

In case of Whonix Linux Installer issues, Whonix can be installed according to the following documentation: Whonix for Windows, macOS, Linux inside VirtualBox can be used as alternative.

(In that case, no use of Whonix Linux Installer required.)

Reply for contributors:

Most likely, this isn’t caused by --oracle-repo and would also happen without --oracle-repo option.

In the new version - which I’ve uploaded just now - there should be a more helpful error message. The error message would be as follows:

whonix-xfce-installer-cli: [ERROR]: Package Upgrade Simulation: Package upgrades available.

Please upgrade your operating system first. Otherwise this installer cannot proceed.

sudo apt-get full-upgrade 

The user is advised to attempt to debug this with the following steps:
1. Run above command as root (with sudo).
2. If there is an issue, use search engines, documentation and if needed
   contact the support of your operating system.
3. Once this has been fixed fixed, re-run this installer.

Could you please try the new version and see if the error message was improved? If not, please provide the debug log. (It’s should be mentioned in the console output.)

This one you can fix with:

sudo apt-get full-upgrade

This is a (for now) Ubuntu specific feature, which we haven’t considered during development for Whonix Linux Installer.

Two options:

  • A) Upgrade ubuntu-drivers-common.
  • B) Try the --noupdate command line option. So the full command line would be:

This:

bash ./whonix-xfce-installer-cli --oracle-repo --noupdate

(This probably results in ignoring the pending phased Ubuntu package update.)

(Optional. Not required for understanding this very forum post. Additinoal background only. We considered stages/phased updates for Whonix too: staged rollouts / staged upgrades / phased updates)

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