Extension add fails due to "libffi.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory" about azure-cli-extensions HOT 3 CLOSED

@benc-uk

I suspect you’re on 16.04, you should have the ~xenial version. I suspect you have the ~wheezy version as I reproduced this with those steps.
You can use ‘dpkg -s azure-cli’ to check yourself.

dpkg -s azure-cli
Package: azure-cli
Status: install ok installed
Priority: extra
Section: python
Installed-Size: 262909
Maintainer: Azure Python CLI Team <[email protected]>
Architecture: all
Version: 2.0.27-1~wheezy

To get the appropriate package for your distribution, remove the current version of the CLI (apt-get remove azure-cli) and follow the steps on our install page.

We recently updated the install page to add this step (AZ_REPO=$(lsb_release -cs)) which will get the correct package for your distro.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cli/azure/install-azure-cli-apt

Once done, this is what you should see:

# dpkg -s azure-cli
Package: azure-cli
Status: install ok installed
Priority: extra
Section: python
Installed-Size: 284525
Maintainer: Azure Python CLI Team <[email protected]>
Architecture: all
Version: 2.0.27-1~xenial

The extension installs fine after that.

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Ahhh ha! Yes this was the problem I had. Reinstalling the CLI with the "AZ_REPO=$(lsb_release -cs)" stuff fixed it and I'm now on the xenial version.

Aren't a lot of people that have installed the CLI on WSL longer than 2-3 weeks ago, going to hit this issue? (and others presumably!) by being locked into the wrong branch in their apt sources?

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Yes potentially. The install page is up-to-date though so following those instructions would resolve this.

We needed to create more .deb packages due to Azure/azure-cli#3720 where users could not even run az login on some distros and we weren't supporting the latest versions of Ubuntu and Debian.

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