[ckan-dev] Dropping support for Ubuntu 10.04

Fri Oct 19 09:00:13 UTC 2012

I would have thought it good to change the 'recommended distro' to
Ubuntu 12.04. Info on installing nodejs from source etc can live on
the wiki with the other tips for installing on other distros.

Dave

On 18 October 2012 15:22, Sean Hammond <sean.hammond at okfn.org> wrote:
> 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.
>
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