This one burned me pretty good because I wasn't paying close attention (oops). All of the central syslog/syslog-ng as well as splunk guides out there have "apt-get install syslog-ng". It seems like dropping ubunti-minimal is new behaviour. As stated it should rely on system- log-deamon and not syslogkd.
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