Ubuntu installation issues

[Thomas de Lorimier]

Hi all,

I'm new to PANDA – and data journalism –, so please forgive me if this question may seem simple.

I followed the advice in the docs to install PANDA "on the old Compaq under your desk".

I installed Ubuntu Server 12.04.5 on an old unused PC in my newsroom; I also installed Ubuntu Server 14.04.4 on another old PC. I ran the setup_panda.sh script on both servers.

Well... after a few tweakings, I got PANDA to work partially on Ubuntu 14.04.4! ...just enough to start testing it with some colleagues and become a huge fan, but unfortunately, not enough to make it work fully (the /admin section is 404).

As for the other server (Ubuntu 12.04.5), when I run this setup script specified in readthedocs, the script freezes after this line :

  

+ pip install -r requirements.txt

I also tried running this version of the script, which doesn't freeze, but errors start after the same line. Here's a sample (it goes on after that):

+ pip install -r requirements.txt
Downloading/unpacking git+https://github.com/onyxfish/csvkit.git#egg=csvkit (from -r requirements.txt (line 12))
  Cloning https://github.com/onyxfish/csvkit.git to /tmp/pip-lfpwDe-build
  Running setup.py egg_info for package from git+https://github.com/onyxfish/csvkit.git#egg=csvkit


Downloading/unpacking git+https://github.com/pandaproject/django-tastypie.git#egg=tastypie (from -r requirements.txt (line 13))
  Cloning https://github.com/pandaproject/django-tastypie.git to /tmp/pip-SqQ8lI-build
  Running setup.py egg_info for package from git+https://github.com/pandaproject/django-tastypie.git#egg=tastypie


Downloading/unpacking git+https://github.com/GoodCloud/django-longer-username.git@e4e85d7d29b2#egg=longerusername (from -r requirements.txt (line 19))
  Cloning https://github.com/GoodCloud/django-longer-username.git (to e4e85d7d29b2) to /tmp/pip-ijja1a-build
  Could not find a tag or branch 'e4e85d7d29b2', assuming commit.
  Running setup.py egg_info for package from git+https://github.com/GoodCloud/django-longer-username.git@e4e85d7d29b2#egg=longerusername


Downloading/unpacking django==1.4.8 (from -r requirements.txt (line 1))
  Running setup.py egg_info for package django


Downloading/unpacking fabric==1.2.2 (from -r requirements.txt (line 2))
  Running setup.py egg_info for package fabric


    warning: no previously-included files matching '*' found under directory 'docs/_build'
    warning: no files found matching 'fabfile.py'
Downloading/unpacking psycopg2==2.4.1 (from -r requirements.txt (line 3))
  Running setup.py egg_info for package psycopg2


    warning: no files found matching '*.html' under directory 'doc'
    warning: no files found matching '*.js' under directory 'doc'
    warning: no files found matching '*' under directory 'doc/html'
    no previously-included directories found matching 'doc/src/_build'
    warning: no files found matching 'MANIFEST'



## (etc...)

Has anyone in the group ever tried to install PANDA on an old PC?

Does anyone have ideas or advice on troubleshooting these installation issues?

Cheers,

Thomas

p.s. : If/when I get PANDA up and running fully, I may be interested in contributing eventually to a French translation. I'll post another topic in the group for that soon, hopefully.

[Thomas de Lorimier]

I found a fix and successfully installed PANDA on our old dusty PC running Ubuntu 12.04!

I will report back later...

[Thomas de Lorimier]

I'm reporting back :

Last month, I successfully installed a second PANDA on another old dusty PC in my newsroom. The last changes Joe made to requirements.txt on github seem to have fixed problems I experienced earlier. So, thanks a lot for this!

This time, I only had to do a few things before running setup_panda.sh to make sure the script did not fail. I'll leave this here as a note to anyone who tries to do what I did.

• Installed a clean/fresh version of Ubuntu server 12.04.5 LTS from a burned server install CD

• Fixed the problem when doing sudo apt-get update http://askubuntu.com/a/300930

sudo rm /var/lib/apt/lists/* -vf
sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo apt-get update

• I still got errors with pip install -r requirements.txt but most of them seem to be fixed by installing cryptography's dependencies before running setup_panda.sh (https://cryptography.io/en/latest/installation/#building-cryptography-on-linux) :
  

sudo apt-get install build-essential libssl-dev libffi-dev python-dev

• URL to setup_panda.sh in readthedocs is broken http://panda.readthedocs.io/en/latest/self-install.html --> wget https://raw.github.com/pandaproject/panda/1.1.2/setup_panda.sh
  Instead, using the link from github :

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pandaproject/panda/master/setup_panda.sh

• Ran sudo bash setup_panda.sh --> 10 minutes later, voilà! A new PANDA is alive and well.
  

Merci!

Thomas