Could not determine debian release code name

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Hi.

We cannot install NetData to one of our Jessie Debian System, can you please help ?

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 ABORTED  Could not determine debian release code name. This is required information on these systems.

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tmp# lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Debian
Description:    Debian GNU/Linux 8.6 (jessie)
Release:        8.6
Codename:       jessie


:/tmp# cat /etc/os-release 
PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 8 (jessie)"
NAME="Debian GNU/Linux"
VERSION_ID="8"
VERSION="8 (jessie)"
ID=debian
HOME_URL="http://www.debian.org/"
SUPPORT_URL="http://www.debian.org/support"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.debian.org/"
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Hi @pgro

Thanks for this. This has been a recent change from what I see, we will try to fix asap.

Thanks!

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Does this system have a /etc/os-release or /usr/lib/os-release files? Can you please list their contents? Thanks!

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Already included above, but here it is

ls -l /etc/os-release 
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Sep 12  2016 /etc/os-release -> ../usr/lib/os-release
root@xxx:~# cat /etc/os-release 
PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 8 (jessie)"
NAME="Debian GNU/Linux"
VERSION_ID="8"
VERSION="8 (jessie)"
ID=debian
HOME_URL="http://www.debian.org/"
SUPPORT_URL="http://www.debian.org/support"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.debian.org/"
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(Ah, didn’t scroll).

It should be fixed by this → Fix handling of missing release codename on DEB systems. by Ferroin · Pull Request #14642 · netdata/netdata · GitHub thank you for reporting!

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Oh great , so I have to kickstart again and that would download the updated install file ? Ok I will try it