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I have an auto install bash script triggered by cron, when some condition is met, the install process is triggered. It essentially looks like this:

#!/bin/bash if [[ -f "/usr/bin/apt-get" ]]; then if [[ ! -f "/usr/bin/dstat" ]]; then apt-get update && apt-get install -y dstat > /tmp/dstat.log fi fi 

The script above is intended to install dstat if it is found not installed. If I manually run this script, everything works as expected. The output looks in /tmp/dstat.log like:

Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: dstat 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 13 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B/68.2 kB of archives. After this operation, 351 kB of additional disk space will be used. Selecting previously unselected package dstat. (Reading database ... 33233 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../dstat_0.7.2-3build1_all.deb ... Unpacking dstat (0.7.2-3build1) ... Processing triggers for man-db (2.6.7.1-1ubuntu1) ... Setting up dstat (0.7.2-3build1) ... 

dstat is installed successfully. Now I add a new entry in crontab and let this script run periodically. I found dstat is not installed, the output looks like:

Reading package lists... Building dependency tree... Reading state information... The following NEW packages will be installed: dstat 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 13 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B/68.2 kB of archives. After this operation, 351 kB of additional disk space will be used. 

I'm really confused.

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  • Did you purge it before ry-trying with cron? Commented Dec 18, 2015 at 10:41
  • No I didn't. I will try it now. But why does purge matter? Commented Dec 18, 2015 at 10:42
  • I ran apt-get purge dstat, but the next run of the cron still did not install dstat. Commented Dec 18, 2015 at 10:46
  • I tested it with jq again, it also does not work. Sorry in my original post I said jq worked while dstat did not, which was a wrong statement. I have fixed in the original post. Commented Dec 18, 2015 at 11:12
  • Try with -y but be careful... Commented Dec 18, 2015 at 12:01

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