install by apt get Unsupported distribution error.

[TangBoheng]

I am following the installation guide to install nvidia-container-toolkit and when I update the apt source I got these error, it seems that the release of ubuntu18.04 doesn't exist anymore. Is there any other way to install nvidia-container-toolkit?

Ign:12 https://nvidia.github.io/libnvidia-container/stable/ubuntu18.04/amd64  InRelease                                       
Hit:13 http://mirrors.aliyun.com/ubuntu bionic-security InRelease                                        
Ign:14 https://nvidia.github.io/nvidia-container-runtime/stable/ubuntu18.04/amd64  InRelease             
Hit:15 http://mirrors.aliyun.com/ubuntu bionic-updates InRelease                                        
Hit:16 http://mirrors.aliyun.com/ubuntu bionic-proposed InRelease                                
Ign:17 https://nvidia.github.io/nvidia-docker/ubuntu18.04/amd64  InRelease 
Hit:18 http://ppa.launchpad.net/graphics-drivers/ppa/ubuntu focal InRelease
Hit:19 http://mirrors.aliyun.com/ubuntu bionic-backports InRelease         
Err:20 https://nvidia.github.io/libnvidia-container/stable/ubuntu18.04/amd64  Release
  Could not handshake: Error in the pull function. 
Err:21 https://nvidia.github.io/nvidia-container-runtime/stable/ubuntu18.04/amd64  Release
  Could not handshake: Error in the pull function. 
Err:22 https://nvidia.github.io/nvidia-docker/ubuntu18.04/amd64  Release
  Could not handshake: Error in the pull function. 
Reading package lists... Done                        
E: The repository 'https://nvidia.github.io/libnvidia-container/stable/ubuntu18.04/amd64  Release' does not have a Release file.
N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.
N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.
E: The repository 'https://nvidia.github.io/nvidia-container-runtime/stable/ubuntu18.04/amd64  Release' does not have a Release file.
N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.
N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.
E: The repository 'https://nvidia.github.io/nvidia-docker/ubuntu18.04/amd64  Release' does not have a Release file.
N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.
N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.

### Tasks

[elezar]

Hi @TangBoheng. Which installation guide are you following?

I see that your repository URLs still refer to ubuntu18.04. The distribution-specific packages were deprecated with the v1.14.0 release and we have moved to generic deb packages.

Please remove and NVIDIA Container Toolkit repository lists from /etc/apt/sources.list.d and follow the instructions outlined in the updated documentation:
https://docs.nvidia.com/datacenter/cloud-native/container-toolkit/latest/install-guide.html#installing-the-nvidia-container-toolkit

[carlory]

Hi @elezar I follow the above guide but it also fails on my ubuntu which is created by windows wsl.

kiki@WIN-9KP539N0RT7:/etc/apt/sources.list.d$ curl -fsSL https://nvidia.github.io/libnvidia-container/gpgkey | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /usr/share/keyrings/nvidia-container-toolkit-keyring.gpg \
  && curl -s -L https://nvidia.github.io/libnvidia-container/stable/deb/nvidia-container-toolkit.list | \
    sed 's#deb https://#deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/nvidia-container-toolkit-keyring.gpg] https://#g' | \
    sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/nvidia-container-toolkit.list
File '/usr/share/keyrings/nvidia-container-toolkit-keyring.gpg' exists. Overwrite? (y/N) y
deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/nvidia-container-toolkit-keyring.gpg] https://nvidia.github.io/libnvidia-container/stable/deb/$(ARCH) /
#deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/nvidia-container-toolkit-keyring.gpg] https://nvidia.github.io/libnvidia-container/experimental/deb/$(ARCH) /
kiki@WIN-9KP539N0RT7:/etc/apt/sources.list.d$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/nvidia-container-toolkit.list
deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/nvidia-container-toolkit-keyring.gpg] https://nvidia.github.io/libnvidia-container/stable/deb/$(ARCH) /
#deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/nvidia-container-toolkit-keyring.gpg] https://nvidia.github.io/libnvidia-container/experimental/deb/$(ARCH) /
kiki@WIN-9KP539N0RT7:/etc/apt/sources.list.d$ sudo apt-get update
Ign:1 https://nvidia.github.io/libnvidia-container/stable/deb/amd64  InRelease
0% [Connecting to archive.ubuntu.com (185.125.190.82)] [Connecting to security.ubuntu.com (GET /repos/edge/dists/stable/InRelease HTTP/1.1
Host: packages.microsoft.com
Cache-Control: max-age=0
Accept: text/*
If-Modified-Since: Fri, 16 May 2025 19:35:21 GMT
User-Agent: Debian APT-HTTP/1.3 (2.4.13)


Answer for: https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/edge/dists/stable/InRelease
HTTP/1.1 304 Not Modified
Date: Sun, 18 May 2025 19:04:20 GMT
Connection: keep-alive
Last-Modified: Fri, 16 May 2025 19:35:21 GMT
ETag: "0x8DD94B0CC1A3557"
x-ms-request-id: 7fd0499c-301e-001d-0999-c67987000000
x-ms-version: 2025-05-05
x-ms-version-id: 2025-05-16T19:35:21.5903063Z
x-ms-is-current-version: true
x-ms-creation-time: Fri, 16 May 2025 19:35:21 GMT
x-ms-blob-content-md5: HORXk0t+PCiVtSPU7MS0Rw==
x-ms-lease-status: unlocked
x-ms-lease-state: available
x-ms-blob-type: BlockBlob
Content-Disposition: attachment;filename=InRelease
x-ms-server-encrypted: true
x-ms-last-access-time: Fri, 16 May 2025 19:35:22 GMT
Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=31536000; includeSubDomains
X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
x-azure-ref: 20250518T190420Z-r1c477946fcwk5qshC1TYOh35n0000000mng00000000r05y
X-Cache: TCP_HIT
Cache-Control: public, max-age=10
x-fd-int-roxy-purgeid: 66952492

Hit:2 https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/edge stable InRelease
Hit:3 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy InRelease
Get:4 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-security InRelease [129 kB]
Hit:5 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates InRelease
Hit:6 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-backports InRelease
Ign:1 https://nvidia.github.io/libnvidia-container/stable/deb/amd64  InRelease
Ign:1 https://nvidia.github.io/libnvidia-container/stable/deb/amd64  InRelease
Err:1 https://nvidia.github.io/libnvidia-container/stable/deb/amd64  InRelease
  Could not handshake: Error in the pull function. [IP: 185.199.108.153 443]
Fetched 129 kB in 7s (17.5 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
W: Failed to fetch https://nvidia.github.io/libnvidia-container/stable/deb/amd64/InRelease  Could not handshake: Error in the pull function. [IP: 185.199.108.153 443]
W: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
kiki@WIN-9KP539N0RT7:/etc/apt/sources.list.d$

Env

OS: Windows 11
WSL Ubuntu:

kiki@WIN-9KP539N0RT7:/etc/apt/sources.list.d$ cat /etc/os-release
PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS"
NAME="Ubuntu"
VERSION_ID="22.04"
VERSION="22.04.5 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish)"
VERSION_CODENAME=jammy
ID=ubuntu
ID_LIKE=debian
HOME_URL="https://www.ubuntu.com/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://help.ubuntu.com/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/"
PRIVACY_POLICY_URL="https://www.ubuntu.com/legal/terms-and-policies/privacy-policy"
UBUNTU_CODENAME=jammy

kiki@WIN-9KP539N0RT7:/etc/apt/sources.list.d$ curl -v https://nvidia.github.io/libnvidia-container/stable/deb/amd64/InRelease
* Uses proxy env variable NO_PROXY == '192.168.*,172.31.*,172.30.*,172.29.*,172.28.*,172.27.*,172.26.*,172.25.*,172.24.*,172.23.*,172.22.*,172.21.*,172.20.*,172.19.*,172.18.*,172.17.*,172.16.*,10.*,127.*,localhost'
* Uses proxy env variable HTTPS_PROXY == 'http://192.168.31.198:7897'
*   Trying 192.168.31.198:7897...
* Connected to (nil) (192.168.31.198) port 7897 (#0)
* allocate connect buffer!
* Establish HTTP proxy tunnel to nvidia.github.io:443
> CONNECT nvidia.github.io:443 HTTP/1.1
> Host: nvidia.github.io:443
> User-Agent: curl/7.81.0
> Proxy-Connection: Keep-Alive
>
< HTTP/1.1 200 Connection established
<
* Proxy replied 200 to CONNECT request
* CONNECT phase completed!
* ALPN, offering h2
* ALPN, offering http/1.1
*  CAfile: /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt
*  CApath: /etc/ssl/certs
* TLSv1.0 (OUT), TLS header, Certificate Status (22):
* TLSv1.3 (OUT), TLS handshake, Client hello (1):
* TLSv1.2 (IN), TLS header, Certificate Status (22):
* TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Server hello (2):
* TLSv1.2 (IN), TLS header, Finished (20):
* TLSv1.2 (IN), TLS header, Supplemental data (23):
* TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Encrypted Extensions (8):
* TLSv1.2 (IN), TLS header, Supplemental data (23):
* TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Certificate (11):
* TLSv1.2 (IN), TLS header, Supplemental data (23):
* TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, CERT verify (15):
* TLSv1.2 (IN), TLS header, Supplemental data (23):
* TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Finished (20):
* TLSv1.2 (OUT), TLS header, Finished (20):
* TLSv1.3 (OUT), TLS change cipher, Change cipher spec (1):
* TLSv1.2 (OUT), TLS header, Supplemental data (23):
* TLSv1.3 (OUT), TLS handshake, Finished (20):
* SSL connection using TLSv1.3 / TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256
* ALPN, server accepted to use h2
* Server certificate:
*  subject: CN=*.github.io
*  start date: Mar  7 00:00:00 2025 GMT
*  expire date: Mar  7 23:59:59 2026 GMT
*  subjectAltName: host "nvidia.github.io" matched cert's "*.github.io"
*  issuer: C=GB; ST=Greater Manchester; L=Salford; O=Sectigo Limited; CN=Sectigo RSA Domain Validation Secure Server CA
*  SSL certificate verify ok.
* Using HTTP2, server supports multiplexing
* Connection state changed (HTTP/2 confirmed)
* Copying HTTP/2 data in stream buffer to connection buffer after upgrade: len=0
* TLSv1.2 (OUT), TLS header, Supplemental data (23):
* TLSv1.2 (OUT), TLS header, Supplemental data (23):
* TLSv1.2 (OUT), TLS header, Supplemental data (23):
* Using Stream ID: 1 (easy handle 0x566c658579f0)
* TLSv1.2 (OUT), TLS header, Supplemental data (23):
> GET /libnvidia-container/stable/deb/amd64/InRelease HTTP/2
> Host: nvidia.github.io
> user-agent: curl/7.81.0
> accept: */*
>
* TLSv1.2 (IN), TLS header, Supplemental data (23):
* TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Newsession Ticket (4):
* TLSv1.2 (IN), TLS header, Supplemental data (23):
* TLSv1.2 (OUT), TLS header, Supplemental data (23):
* TLSv1.2 (IN), TLS header, Supplemental data (23):
< HTTP/2 200
< server: GitHub.com
< content-type: application/octet-stream
< permissions-policy: interest-cohort=()
< x-origin-cache: HIT
< last-modified: Fri, 16 May 2025 15:41:38 GMT
< access-control-allow-origin: *
< etag: "68275cb2-5c5"
< expires: Sun, 18 May 2025 01:21:56 GMT
< cache-control: max-age=600
< x-proxy-cache: MISS
< x-github-request-id: 6E1F:19A86:BC8E41:C4365B:682933DB
< accept-ranges: bytes
< date: Sun, 18 May 2025 19:13:40 GMT
< via: 1.1 varnish
< age: 451
< x-served-by: cache-sjc1000126-SJC
< x-cache: HIT
< x-cache-hits: 5
< x-timer: S1747595620.397019,VS0,VE1
< vary: Accept-Encoding
< x-fastly-request-id: a34c78421047b78cc06062cba342525010164577
< content-length: 1477
<
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kiki@WIN-9KP539N0RT7:/etc/apt/sources.list.d$

[RosezzzCurry]

hello，are you solve this problem？

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[elezar]

This seems like a networking or transient issue. Please ensure that the up to date installation instructions are followed. It may also be a possibility to use the packages from the CUDA Downloads repos.

I am closing this issue. If any problems persist, please open a new issue.