[ckan-dev] Dropping support for Ubuntu 10.04

Thu Oct 18 14:22:33 UTC 2012

Hey all,

Ubuntu 10.04 is still the recommended version of Ubuntu for CKAN but
with the current CKAN 2.0 alpha there are difficulties, at least two
that I know of so far. The new datastore requires workarounds to work
with the old version of PostgreSQL in 10.04. Also for development you need
to install nodejs and npm but there are no packages for these in Ubuntu
10.04 so you'd have to install them from source, in Ubuntu 12.04 you can
just apt-get them.

I wonder if for CKAN 2.0 we should just say Ubuntu 12.04 is the
recommended version and 10.04 is not officially supported?

We could put a 10.04 install guide in a legacy page in the docs or on
the wiki perhaps.

Also a heads up, from Ubuntu 12.10 (out this month) I think they are shipping
Python 3 only pre-installed, you'd have to apt-get Python 2.7. AFAIK we
should be okay except that you'll have to apt-get python2.7.