Stackdriver agent installation failed

Question

I am trying to install Stackdriver Agent. I am using the Google cloud instance (os Ubuntu) and followed the instruction given at google cloud docs for monitoring. Here, are the logs from my server console.

root@instance-1:~/opt# sudo bash stack-install.sh --write-gcm
Installing agents for Debian or Ubuntu.
curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 404 Not Found
OK
Hit:1 http://asia-east1.gce.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu yakkety InRelease
Hit:2 http://asia-east1.gce.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu yakkety-updates     InRelease
Get:3 http://asia-east1.gce.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu yakkety-backports     InRelease [102 kB]
Ign:4 http://repo.mongodb.org/apt/ubuntu xenial/mongodb-org/3.2 InRelease
Hit:5 http://repo.mongodb.org/apt/ubuntu xenial/mongodb-org/3.2 Release
Hit:6 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu yakkety-security InRelease
Hit:8 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu yakkety InRelease
Hit:9 https://deb.nodesource.com/node_6.x yakkety InRelease
Fetched 102 kB in 0s (111 kB/s)
Reading package lists...
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
E: Unable to locate package stackdriver-agent
Installation failed.
root@instance-1:~/opt# 

Answer 1

According to the list of documented OSs , the following are supported at present:

• LTS 12.04 "Precise"
• LTS 14.04 "Trusty"
• LTS 16.04 "Xenial"

And it appears that only LTS releases are supported.

Answer 2

First you need to type this:

sudo apt-cache madison stackdriver-agent

To show the list of available versions of the agent in order to select which version to install.

Results:

stackdriver-agent | 6.0.2-1.bionic | http://packages.cloud.google.com/apt google-cloud-monitoring-bionic-all/main amd64 Packages

stackdriver-agent | 6.0.1-1.bionic | http://packages.cloud.google.com/apt google-cloud-monitoring-bionic-all/main amd64 Packages

stackdriver-agent | 6.0.0-1.bionic | http://packages.cloud.google.com/apt google-cloud-monitoring-bionic-all/main amd64 Packages

stackdriver-agent | 5.5.2-1002.bionic | http://packages.cloud.google.com/apt google-cloud-monitoring-bionic-all/main amd64 Packages

stackdriver-agent | 5.5.2-1001.bionic | http://packages.cloud.google.com/apt google-cloud-monitoring-bionic-all/main amd64 Packages

Then:

sudo apt-get install -y 'stackdriver-agent=[MAJOR_VERSION].*'

For example , to pin to the 6.0.2-1 bionic of the agent, run:

sudo apt-get install -y 'stackdriver-agent=6.0.2-1.bionic*'