Azure CLI no longer installs from documented command on ubuntu linux 21.10.

az feedback auto-generates most of the information requested below, as of CLI version 2.0.62

Describe the bug When attempting to install azure cli from the instructions here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cli/azure/install-azure-cli-linux?pivots=apt Running curl -sL https://aka.ms/InstallAzureCLIDeb | bash results in

Package azure-cli is not available, but is referred to by another package. This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only available from another source

E: Package ‘azure-cli’ has no installation candidate To Reproduce curl -sL https://aka.ms/InstallAzureCLIDeb | bash

Expected behavior azure-cli installs correctly

Environment summary Installed using single command from document.

Additional context I am building this on a container image that is using ubuntu:21.10 as the base image.

Step 8/14 : RUN curl -sL https://aka.ms/InstallAzureCLIDeb | bash
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Hit:1 https://apt.releases.hashicorp.com/ impish InRelease
Hit:2 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu impish-security InRelease
Hit:3 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu impish InRelease
Hit:4 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu impish-updates InRelease
Hit:5 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu impish-backports InRelease
Reading package lists...
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
curl is already the newest version (7.74.0-1.3ubuntu2).
gnupg is already the newest version (2.2.20-1ubuntu4).
lsb-release is already the newest version (11.1.0ubuntu3).
lsb-release set to manually installed.
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  apt-transport-https
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 8 not upgraded.
Need to get 1510 B of archives.
After this operation, 167 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu impish/universe amd64 apt-transport-https all 2.3.9 [1510 B]
debconf: delaying package configuration, since apt-utils is not installed
Fetched 1510 B in 0s (5475 B/s)
Selecting previously unselected package apt-transport-https.
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Preparing to unpack .../apt-transport-https_2.3.9_all.deb ...
Unpacking apt-transport-https (2.3.9) ...
Setting up apt-transport-https (2.3.9) ...
Hit:1 https://apt.releases.hashicorp.com/ impish InRelease
Get:2 https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/azure-cli impish InRelease [5816 B]
Hit:3 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu impish InRelease
Hit:4 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu impish-security InRelease
Hit:5 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu impish-updates InRelease
Hit:6 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu impish-backports InRelease
Fetched 5816 B in 1s (9250 B/s)
Reading package lists...
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
E: Unable to locate package azure-cli
The command '/bin/sh -c curl -sL https://aka.ms/InstallAzureCLIDeb | bash' returned a non-zero code: 100
2022-03-04T14:04:26.861664471Z stdout P

[jiasli]

I am glad to announce that https://packages.microsoft.com/ has now support zstd compression and we have successfully published Azure CLI 2.34.1 for Impish:

> docker run -it --rm ubuntu:impish

# apt update

# apt install curl

# curl -sL https://aka.ms/InstallAzureCLIDeb | bash
...
Get:1 https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/azure-cli impish/main amd64 azure-cli all 2.34.1-1~impish [76.4 MB]
...
Preparing to unpack .../azure-cli_2.34.1-1~impish_all.deb ...
Unpacking azure-cli (2.34.1-1~impish) ...
Setting up azure-cli (2.34.1-1~impish) ...

# apt info azure-cli
Package: azure-cli
Version: 2.34.1-1~impish
Priority: extra
Section: python
Maintainer: Azure Python CLI Team <[e-mail]>
Installed-Size: 1051 MB
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.34), libssl1.1 (>= 1.1.1)
Homepage: https://github.com/azure/azure-cli
Download-Size: 76.4 MB
APT-Manual-Installed: yes
APT-Sources: https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/azure-cli impish/main amd64 Packages
Description: Azure CLI
 A great cloud needs great tools; we're excited to introduce Azure CLI,
 our next generation multi-platform command line experience for Azure.

Please give it a try and let us know if it works for you. Thanks for your patience and understanding.

[jiasli]

We totally understand this situation and we are working tightly with https://packages.microsoft.com/ team. Since Ubuntu 22.04 will be released pretty soon, we will make zstd compression supported as soon as possible.

For now, please use Ubuntu 20.04 LTS to install Azure CLI.

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