Support active Debian/Ubuntu distributions from Wheezy up

We install the azure cli on an Ubuntu 14.04 VM using apt-get in some of our automation scenarios and we started getting a new error yesterday. After running az login, we see this:

Please ensure you have network connection. Error detail: Can’t connect to HTTPS URL because the SSL module is not available.

For reference this is how we install the cli:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y libssl-dev libffi-dev python-dev
echo "deb [arch=amd64] https://apt-mo.trafficmanager.net/repos/azure-cli/ wheezy main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/azure-cli.list
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver apt-mo.trafficmanager.net --recv-keys 417A0893
sudo apt-get install -y apt-transport-https
sudo apt-get -y update && sudo apt-get install -y azure-cli

Like I said, we do this in automation (aka it’s a clean VM every time) and we haven’t changed anything about how we install the CLI. I tried interactively installing with the https://aka.ms/InstallAzureCli command and did not reproduce this error.

[derekbekoe]

The fix is out. We have .debs for Ubuntu: trusty, xenial, artful & Debian: wheezy, jessie, stretch.

export AZ_REPO=$(lsb_release -cs)
echo "deb [arch=amd64] https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/azure-cli/ $AZ_REPO main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/azure-cli.list

Then follow the rest of the instructions at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cli/azure/install-azure-cli-apt?view=azure-cli-latest#install

[troydai]

@EricJizbaMSFT I republished the package and tested on Ubuntu 14.04. It’s working now. Please make sure you clean the apt-get cache before reinstall the azure-cli. Thank you for reporting the issue and sorry for the inconvenience.