# Wireguard install failed, now can't do anything else with dietpi-software
**URL:** https://dietpi.com/forum/t/wireguard-install-failed-now-cant-do-anything-else-with-dietpi-software/15173
**Category:** Troubleshooting
**Created:** [7 December 2022 03:13 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/wireguard-install-failed-now-cant-do-anything-else-with-dietpi-software/15173 "2022-12-07T03:13:59Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@brtravel](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/brtravel)
#### Post date: [7 December 2022 03:13 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/wireguard-install-failed-now-cant-do-anything-else-with-dietpi-software/15173/1 "2022-12-07T03:13:59Z")
### Creating a bug report/issue
#### Required Information
- DietPi version | 8.11.2
- Distro version | bullseye
- Kernel version | Linux DietPi 4.14.294+
- SBC model | Odroid HC2
- Power supply used | 12V 5A from Odroid
- SD card used | Sandisk Extreme
#### Additional Information (if applicable)
- Software title | Wireguard
- Was the software title installed freshly or updated/migrated? Freshly
← If you sent a “dietpi-bugreport”, please paste the ID here →
- Bug report ID | 82814656-605d-4288-b79f-8eb9e4002d32
#### Steps to reproduce
1. I tried installing Wireguard from dietpi-software, the install failed, I did not pay much attention to the error as I was just wanting to experiment with Wireguard and don’t need it.
2. Since the failure, I can’t install or uninstall anything else from dietpi-software, or run ‘apt upgrade’, instead I get an error that seems to relate to trouble removing old Wireguard files.
#### Extra details
The error:
```auto
│ APT install for: linux-image-4.14-armhf-odroid-xu4 linux-headers-4.14-armhf-odroid-xu4
│ - Command: apt-get -y --allow-change-held-packages install linux-image-4.14-armhf-odroid-xu4
│ linux-headers-4.14-armhf-odroid-xu4
│ - Exit code: 100
│ - DietPi version: v8.11.2 (MichaIng/master) | HW_MODEL: 11 | HW_ARCH: 2 | DISTRO: 6
│ - Image creator: DietPi Core Team
│ - Pre-image: Meveric
│ - Error log:
│ Reading package lists...
│ Building dependency tree...
│ Reading state information...
│ linux-headers-4.14-armhf-odroid-xu4 is already the newest version (4.14.294-1).
│ linux-image-4.14-armhf-odroid-xu4 is already the newest version (4.14.294-1).
│ 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
│ 1 not fully installed or removed.
│ After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
│ Setting up wireguard-dkms (1.0.20210219-1) ...^M
│ Removing old wireguard-1.0.20210219 DKMS files...^M
│ ^M
│ ------------------------------^M
│ Deleting module version: 1.0.20210219^M
│ completely from the DKMS tree.^M
│ ------------------------------^M
│ Done.^M
│ Loading new wireguard-1.0.20210219 DKMS files...^M
│ Building for 4.14.294+^M
│ Building initial module for 4.14.294+^M
│ Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 4.14.294+ (armv7l)^M
│ Consult /var/lib/dkms/wireguard/1.0.20210219/build/make.log for more information.^M
│ dpkg: error processing package wireguard-dkms (--configure):^M
│ installed wireguard-dkms package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 10^M
│ Errors were encountered while processing:^M
│ wireguard-dkms^M
│ E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
```
The make.log referenced in that error:
[make.log](https://dietpi.com/forum/uploads/short-url/8ApbGzXsU6PnThQk9bO8t3T6OS9.log) (30.3 KB)
---
### Author:  [@Joulinar](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/Joulinar)
#### Post date: [7 December 2022 22:29 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/wireguard-install-failed-now-cant-do-anything-else-with-dietpi-software/15173/2 "2022-12-07T22:29:41Z")
you could try to purge wireguard packages
```auto
apt purge wireguard*
```
---
### Author:  [@brtravel](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/brtravel)
#### Post date: [8 December 2022 07:34 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/wireguard-install-failed-now-cant-do-anything-else-with-dietpi-software/15173/3 "2022-12-08T07:34:43Z")
Excellent, that did it!
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### Author:  [@Joulinar](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/Joulinar)
#### Post date: [8 December 2022 08:10 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/wireguard-install-failed-now-cant-do-anything-else-with-dietpi-software/15173/4 "2022-12-08T08:10:42Z")
ok good. Question: how you tried to install Wireguard. Did you used dietpi-software or was this a manually installation?
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### Author:  [@brtravel](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/brtravel)
#### Post date: [8 December 2022 08:23 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/wireguard-install-failed-now-cant-do-anything-else-with-dietpi-software/15173/5 "2022-12-08T08:23:30Z")
using dietpi-software
---
### Author:  [@Joulinar](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/Joulinar)
#### Post date: [8 December 2022 08:42 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/wireguard-install-failed-now-cant-do-anything-else-with-dietpi-software/15173/6 "2022-12-08T08:42:09Z")
@MichaIng
Could you have a look on this topic. WireGuard installation failed on a HC2 image running old kernel 4.14.
---
### Author:  [@MichaIng](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/MichaIng)
#### Post date: [9 December 2022 21:17 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/wireguard-install-failed-now-cant-do-anything-else-with-dietpi-software/15173/7 "2022-12-09T21:17:06Z")
What does the failed build log say?
```bash
cat /var/lib/dkms/wireguard/1.0.20210219/build/make.log
```
Probably newest WireGuard cannot compile on this old kernel anymore.
---
### Author:  [@Joulinar](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/Joulinar)
#### Post date: [9 December 2022 21:29 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/wireguard-install-failed-now-cant-do-anything-else-with-dietpi-software/15173/8 "2022-12-09T21:29:25Z")
> [@brtravel](#):
>
> [make.log](https://dietpi.com/forum/uploads/short-url/8ApbGzXsU6PnThQk9bO8t3T6OS9.log) (30.3 KB)
@MichaIng log was already attached above
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### Author:  [@MichaIng](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/MichaIng)
#### Post date: [9 December 2022 21:34 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/wireguard-install-failed-now-cant-do-anything-else-with-dietpi-software/15173/9 "2022-12-09T21:34:08Z")
So jep, looks like support has gone. I.e. for using WireGuard, our new image would need to be used. Sadly it isn’t possible to upgrade, since a different partitioning is required for the mainline U-Boot.
---
### Author:  [@MichaIng](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/MichaIng)
#### Post date: [9 December 2022 22:01 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/wireguard-install-failed-now-cant-do-anything-else-with-dietpi-software/15173/10 "2022-12-09T22:01:11Z")
I disabled the install option via DKMS now completely. All legacy Odroid vendor kernels are not supported anymore by WireGuard: [v8.12 · MichaIng/DietPi@e8a944a · GitHub](https://github.com/MichaIng/DietPi/commit/e8a944a)
EDIT: On `x86_64` Buster with Linux 4.19 the build still succeeds. However, there it is much easier to upgrade to Linux 5.10 via backports:
```bash
apt install -t buster-backports linux-image-amd64
```
---
### Author:  [@brtravel](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/brtravel)
#### Post date: [13 December 2022 07:11 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/wireguard-install-failed-now-cant-do-anything-else-with-dietpi-software/15173/11 "2022-12-13T07:11:02Z")
Much appreciated! fortunately I don’t presently have any need for Wireguard on this device, I simply wanted to explore its features. I’m always very impressed with the responsiveness of support with DietPi!