Help with login to influxdb through cli .... 🫣

I try to work with influxdb (ver 2) since days as a influx-newbie…

but i stuck at the login to the influxdb at the cli… i tried different calls as i found at the internet…but nothing worked…

as told i tried

influx -username myname -password supersecret
as well as
influx -user myname -password supersecret

but every try ends in a Error Message pointing to the help manual…

what goes wrong ? what did i forgot… Thank you helping a noob…

One question:

Shouldn’t the command ‘influx’ connect to the local influx instance (xxxxxx:8086)??

This doesn’t work as Well…

i found this entry in dpkg.log

2024-11-16 11:21:40 install influxdb-client:arm64 1.6.7~rc0-1+b13
2024-11-16 11:21:40 status half-installed influxdb-client:arm64 1.6.7~rc0-1+b13
2024-11-16 11:21:40 status not-installed influxdb-client:arm64