No firewall-bouncer in repo for Ubuntu 24.04

crowdsec
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I have an installation with one LAPI server and currently three firewall bouncers (two using iptables on AlmaLinux9.5, one using nftables on Ubuntu 24.04).

On the server, when I run cscli metrics on the LAPI server, I don’t get any metrics for the bouncer on Ubuntu.

After some investigation, it appears that the bouncer is not available from the Crowdsec repo for this Ubuntu version, so has installed v0.025-3ubuntu0.24.04.2 from Ubuntu’s own repos instead.

The old version of the bouncer does properly block, just doesn’t collect any metrics.

Is there another repo that I should add or should I build from source?

Thanks

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I have just found in the documentation, that Ubuntu 24.04 is not a supported OS version. Only 16.04/18.04/20.04/22.04/22.10.

I will build the latest version from source instead.

Is a release for Ubuntu 24.04 in the road-map as it is now a year old?

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Hey we do support ubuntu 24 under our new any/any packaging tag

The preferred methods is to run our install script:

curl -s https://install.crowdsec.net | sudo sh

If you are searching the packages manually you need to search any/any like so

ubuntu does have crowdsec in it’s repository which comes from debian packaging but the maintainer is no longer updating the package so our method to install our repository is the preffered

Since CrowdSec is written in Golang we dont have to compile for each distribution we can provide a single static binary for everyone.

It will also be useful if you can point out which latest documentation that states this? note our documentation is versioned so you can see 1.X.X in corner if you on an old version setting it to next shows the latest documentation with the current information.

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It was the version matrix for v1.6.0 that I was looking at.

I see that the matrix for next is showing newer versions too.

I’m not a fan of install scripts as it doesn’t fit in as well with orchestration, I will make use of any/any. Note that on packagecloud, it doesn’t mention any/any, but that might not be something that can be changed.

Thanks for your help.

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Yeah packagecloud didnt officially support any/any until we asked them to add the support so it kinda half baked but they are working on improving it