Can't install Gitlab CE on Ubuntu Server 16.04 LTS

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I’m trying to install Gitlab CE on a local machine which is currently running Ubuntu 16.04. Every time I try installing Gitlab, I end up with the package in a bad state. Am I doing something wrong? This is the output of the installation:

user@SVR01:~$ curl -LO https://packages.gitlab.com/install/repositories/gitlab/gitlab-ce/script.deb.sh
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100  5232    0  5232    0     0   1290      0 --:--:--  0:00:04 --:--:--  1290
user@SVR01:~$ sudo bash script.deb.sh
[sudo] password for user: 
Detected operating system as Ubuntu/xenial.
Checking for curl...
Detected curl...
Running apt-get update... done.
Installing apt-transport-https... done.
Installing /etc/apt/sources.list.d/gitlab_gitlab-ce.list...done.
Importing packagecloud gpg key... done.
Running apt-get update... done.

The repository is setup! You can now install packages.
user@SVR01:~$ sudo apt install gitlab-ce
[sudo] password for user: 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  gitlab-ce
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 410 MB of archives.
After this operation, 1,211 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 https://packages.gitlab.com/gitlab/gitlab-ce/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 gitlab-ce amd64 10.4.1-ce.0 [410 MB]
Fetched 286 MB in 5min 36s (849 kB/s)                                                                                                                                                                                                       
Selecting previously unselected package gitlab-ce.
(Reading database ... 117312 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../gitlab-ce_10.4.1-ce.0_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking gitlab-ce (10.4.1-ce.0) ...
*** Error in `/usr/bin/dpkg': corrupted size vs. prev_size: 0x0000000002a68600 ***
======= Backtrace: =========
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0x777e5)[0x7fad4ea627e5]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0x7e9dc)[0x7fad4ea699dc]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0x81cde)[0x7fad4ea6ccde]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__libc_malloc+0x54)[0x7fad4ea6f184]
/usr/bin/dpkg[0x41d369]
/usr/bin/dpkg[0x418b76]
/usr/bin/dpkg[0x418ced]
/usr/bin/dpkg[0x404d3a]
/usr/bin/dpkg[0x423ade]
/usr/bin/dpkg[0x415e31]
/usr/bin/dpkg[0x406824]
/usr/bin/dpkg[0x403539]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf0)[0x7fad4ea0b830]
/usr/bin/dpkg[0x403649]
======= Memory map: ========
00400000-00443000 r-xp 00000000 fc:00 2759204                            /usr/bin/dpkg
00642000-00643000 r--p 00042000 fc:00 2759204                            /usr/bin/dpkg
00643000-00644000 rw-p 00043000 fc:00 2759204                            /usr/bin/dpkg
00644000-00858000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 
01638000-02a9d000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0                                  [heap]
7fad48000000-7fad48021000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 
7fad48021000-7fad4c000000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0 
7fad4d6f7000-7fad4d70d000 r-xp 00000000 fc:00 5767693                    /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1
7fad4d70d000-7fad4d90c000 ---p 00016000 fc:00 5767693                    /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1
7fad4d90c000-7fad4d90d000 rw-p 00015000 fc:00 5767693                    /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1
7fad4d90d000-7fad4db1a000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 
7fad4db1a000-7fad4db25000 r-xp 00000000 fc:00 5772374                    /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnss_files-2.23.so
7fad4db25000-7fad4dd24000 ---p 0000b000 fc:00 5772374                    /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnss_files-2.23.so
7fad4dd24000-7fad4dd25000 r--p 0000a000 fc:00 5772374                    /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnss_files-2.23.so
7fad4dd25000-7fad4dd26000 rw-p 0000b000 fc:00 5772374                    /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnss_files-2.23.so
7fad4dd26000-7fad4dd2c000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 
7fad4dd2c000-7fad4dd37000 r-xp 00000000 fc:00 5772378                    /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnss_nis-2.23.so
7fad4dd37000-7fad4df36000 ---p 0000b000 fc:00 5772378                    /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnss_nis-2.23.so
7fad4df36000-7fad4df37000 r--p 0000a000 fc:00 5772378                    /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnss_nis-2.23.so
7fad4df37000-7fad4df38000 rw-p 0000b000 fc:00 5772378                    /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnss_nis-2.23.so
7fad4df38000-7fad4df4e000 r-xp 00000000 fc:00 5772358                    /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnsl-2.23.so
7fad4df4e000-7fad4e14d000 ---p 00016000 fc:00 5772358                    /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnsl-2.23.so
7fad4e14d000-7fad4e14e000 r--p 00015000 fc:00 5772358                    /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnsl-2.23.so
7fad4e14e000-7fad4e14f000 rw-p 00016000 fc:00 5772358                    /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnsl-2.23.so
7fad4e14f000-7fad4e151000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 
7fad4e151000-7fad4e159000 r-xp 00000000 fc:00 5772369                    /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnss_compat-2.23.so
7fad4e159000-7fad4e358000 ---p 00008000 fc:00 5772369                    /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnss_compat-2.23.so
7fad4e358000-7fad4e359000 r--p 00007000 fc:00 5772369                    /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnss_compat-2.23.so
7fad4e359000-7fad4e35a000 rw-p 00008000 fc:00 5772369                    /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnss_compat-2.23.so
7fad4e35a000-7fad4e372000 r-xp 00000000 fc:00 5772360                    /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread-2.23.so
7fad4e372000-7fad4e571000 ---p 00018000 fc:00 5772360                    /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread-2.23.so
7fad4e571000-7fad4e572000 r--p 00017000 fc:00 5772360                    /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread-2.23.so
7fad4e572000-7fad4e573000 rw-p 00018000 fc:00 5772360                    /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread-2.23.so
7fad4e573000-7fad4e577000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 
7fad4e577000-7fad4e57a000 r-xp 00000000 fc:00 5772363                    /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl-2.23.so
7fad4e57a000-7fad4e779000 ---p 00003000 fc:00 5772363                    /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl-2.23.so
7fad4e779000-7fad4e77a000 r--p 00002000 fc:00 5772363                    /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl-2.23.so
7fad4e77a000-7fad4e77b000 rw-p 00003000 fc:00 5772363                    /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl-2.23.so
7fad4e77b000-7fad4e7e9000 r-xp 00000000 fc:00 5767747                    /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpcre.so.3.13.2
7fad4e7e9000-7fad4e9e9000 ---p 0006e000 fc:00 5767747                    /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpcre.so.3.13.2
7fad4e9e9000-7fad4e9ea000 r--p 0006e000 fc:00 5767747                    /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpcre.so.3.13.2
7fad4e9ea000-7fad4e9eb000 rw-p 0006f000 fc:00 5767747                    /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpcre.so.3.13.2
7fad4e9eb000-7fad4ebab000 r-xp 00000000 fc:00 5772361                    /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc-2.23.so
7fad4ebab000-7fad4edab000 ---p 001c0000 fc:00 5772361                    /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc-2.23.so
7fad4edab000-7fad4edaf000 r--p 001c0000 fc:00 5772361                    /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc-2.23.so
7fad4edaf000-7fad4edb1000 rw-p 001c4000 fc:00 5772361                    /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc-2.23.so
7fad4edb1000-7fad4edb5000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 
7fad4edb5000-7fad4edd4000 r-xp 00000000 fc:00 5767764                    /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libselinux.so.1
7fad4edd4000-7fad4efd3000 ---p 0001f000 fc:00 5767764                    /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libselinux.so.1
7fad4efd3000-7fad4efd4000 r--p 0001e000 fc:00 5767764                    /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libselinux.so.1
7fad4efd4000-7fad4efd5000 rw-p 0001f000 fc:00 5767764                    /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libselinux.so.1
7fad4efd5000-7fad4efd7000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 
7fad4efd7000-7fad4effd000 r-xp 00000000 fc:00 5772359                    /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ld-2.23.so
7fad4f055000-7fad4f1ed000 r--p 00000000 fc:00 2753714                    /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
7fad4f1ed000-7fad4f1f2000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 
7fad4f1fb000-7fad4f1fc000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 
7fad4f1fc000-7fad4f1fd000 r--p 00025000 fc:00 5772359                    /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ld-2.23.so
7fad4f1fd000-7fad4f1fe000 rw-p 00026000 fc:00 5772359                    /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ld-2.23.so
7fad4f1fe000-7fad4f1ff000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 
7ffe51371000-7ffe51392000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0                          [stack]
7ffe513b9000-7ffe513bc000 r--p 00000000 00:00 0                          [vvar]
7ffe513bc000-7ffe513be000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0                          [vdso]
ffffffffff600000-ffffffffff601000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0                  [vsyscall]
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg exited unexpectedly
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This won’t be a direct reply but I’m using docker image instead of directly installing Gitlab on Ubuntu 16.04.
I won’t have to worry about library version dependency problems.
https://hub.docker.com/r/gitlab/gitlab-ce/

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I would rather not use docker. I’m trying to keep things simple. Thanks for the suggestion though! :slight_smile: