Installing Varnis on Debian 7

[Paul A. Procacci]

On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 11:59:20AM +0530, Debraj Manna wrote:
>    Hi,
>    I am trying to install Varnish 4 on Debian 7 as mentioned in this
>    [1]link.
>    But on doing apt-get install varnish. I am getting the below error.
>    root at SPK-D-0476:/home/debraj# apt-get install varnish
>    Reading package lists... Done
>    Building dependency tree
>    Reading state information... Done
>    Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
>    requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
>    distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
>    or been moved out of Incoming.
>    The following information may help to resolve the situation:
>    The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>     varnish : Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14) but 2.13-38+deb7u8 is to be
>    installed
>               Depends: libpcre3 (>= 1:8.35) but 1:8.30-5 is to be
>    installed
>               Depends: libvarnishapi1 (>= 4.1.0-1~jessie) but it is not
>    going to be installed
>    E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
>    I also tried aptitude but it is showing me the option to install
>    varnish 3 but not varnish 4
>    root at SPK-D-0476:/home/debraj# aptitude install varnish
>    The following NEW packages will be installed:
>      varnish{b}
>    0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 40 not
>    upgraded.
>    Need to get 527 kB of archives. After unpacking 1,636 kB will be used.
>    The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>     varnish : Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14) but 2.13-38+deb7u8 is installed.
>               Depends: libjemalloc1 (>= 2.1.1) but it is not going to be
>    installed.
>               Depends: libpcre3 (>= 1:8.35) but 1:8.30-5 is installed.
>               Depends: libvarnishapi1 (>= 4.1.0-1~jessie) but it is not
>    going to be installed.
>    The following actions will resolve these dependencies:
>         Keep the following packages at their current version:
>    1)     varnish [Not Installed]
>    Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] n
>    The following actions will resolve these dependencies:
>         Install the following packages:
>    1)     libvarnishapi1 [3.0.2-2+deb7u1 (oldstable)]
>    2)     varnish [3.0.2-2+deb7u1 (oldstable)]
>    Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?]
>    Can some one let me know how can I install varnish 4 on Debian 7?
>    Thanks,
> 

Not sure about Debian, I'm a FreeBSD user myself, but when all else fails you
can download the source and build your own rpm against the libs installed on
your own system.

~Paul