How to install latest version of nginx on raspbian?

Question

What to specify in source.list? because when I write

deb http://nginx.org/packages/debian/ jessie nginx
deb-src http://nginx.org/packages/debian/ jessie nginx

appears error:

Unable to find expected entry '' in Release file (Wrong sources.list entry or malformed file)

Answer 1

There is another way to install the last version of nginx on raspbian stretch, by using the repo of buster the next version of raspbian.

Only three commands are needed:

# Add the url to apt source list
echo "deb http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian/ buster main contrib non-free rpi" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/10-buster.list
# Set preferences to give more priority to stretch
printf "Package: *\nPin: release n=stretch\nPin-Priority: 900\n\nPackage: *\nPin: release n=buster\nPin-Priority: 750" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/preferences.d/10-buster
# Update and install: -t is used to target a release and -yqq to confirm and reduce output  
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -t buster nginx -yqq

At the time of writing, the last stable version is 1.14.1.
The same pointed out by sudo apt-get install -t buster -s nginx

Source: https://getgrav.org/blog/raspberrypi-nginx-php7-dev

Answer 2

You can get the current latest, 1.13.1, which supports ALPN and HTTP 2.0 by using the Ubuntu sources. As an aside: it's best to put modifications to your apt sources in the sources dictionary rather than sources.list itself, it helps in terms of maintainability.

Create a file for the repository

sudo touch /etc/apt/sources.list.d/nginx.list

Run the following to add a reference to the Ubuntu repository, and debian jessie backports.

sudo bash -c 'cat << EOF >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/nginx.list
    # jessie-backports, from stretch-level but with no dependencies
    deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/ jessie-backports main contrib non-free
    deb-src http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/ jessie-backports main contrib non-free

    # Nginx repository - use Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Xenial to get packages compiled with OpenSSL 1.0.2
    deb http://nginx.org/packages/mainline/ubuntu/ xenial nginx
    deb-src http://nginx.org/packages/mainline/ubuntu/ xenial nginx
EOF'

Update your sources:

sudo apt-get update

Install/Upgrade OpenSSL

sudo apt-get install -t jessie-backports openssl

Install/Upgrade Nginx:

sudo apt-get install nginx

Done.

Answer 3

I followed @Joe's suggestion, it did not work in Raspbian Stretch nginx: Installed: (none) Candidate: 1.10.3-1+deb9u1 Version table: 1.10.3-1+deb9u1 500 500 http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian stretch/main armhf Packages 1.10.3-1+deb9u1~bpo8+2 100 100 http://httpredir.debian.org/debian jessie-backports/main armhf Packages

Then I changed packages to refer to stretch backport and debian package instead of Ubuntu,

# stretch-backports
deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/ stretch-backports main contrib non-free
deb-src http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/ stretch-backports main contrib non-free

# Nginx pre built packages
deb http://nginx.org/packages/mainline/debian/ stretch nginx
deb-src http://nginx.org/packages/mainline/debian/ stretch nginx

The new one gives me

nginx: Installed: (none) Candidate: 1.13.3-1~bpo9+1 Version table: 1.13.3-1~bpo9+1 990 990 http://httpredir.debian.org/debian stretch-backports/main armhf Packages 1.10.3-1+deb9u1 500 500 http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian stretch/main armhf Packages