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Commit d8a239e4b1418b7681d8a1abad20264573c85f11

Authored by Riyad Preukschas
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Exists in master and in 4 other branches 6-8-stable, 7-0-stable, 7-0-stable-spb, spb-stable

Add instructions for dealing with the Python 2 vs 3 mess

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doc/install/installation.md
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... ... @@ -38,7 +38,24 @@ Make sure your system is up-to-date:
38 38  
39 39 Install the required packages:
40 40  
41   - sudo apt-get install -y wget curl build-essential checkinstall libxml2-dev libxslt-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libreadline6-dev libc6-dev libssl-dev zlib1g-dev libicu-dev redis-server openssh-server git-core python2.7 libyaml-dev postfix
  41 + sudo apt-get install -y wget curl build-essential checkinstall libxml2-dev libxslt-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libreadline6-dev libc6-dev libssl-dev zlib1g-dev libicu-dev redis-server openssh-server git-core libyaml-dev postfix
  42 +
  43 +Make sure you have the right version of Python installed.
  44 +
  45 + # Install Python
  46 + sudo apt-get install python
  47 +
  48 + # Make sure that Python is 2.x (3.x is not supported at the moment)
  49 + python --version
  50 +
  51 + # If it's Python 3 you might need to install Python 2 separately
  52 + sudo apt-get install python2.7
  53 +
  54 + # Make sure you can access Python via `python2`
  55 + python2 --version
  56 +
  57 + # If you get a "command not found" error create a link to the python binary
  58 + sudo ln -s /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/python2
42 59  
43 60  
44 61 # 2. Ruby
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