Question about AtoM 2.5 software requirements

[Darryl Friesen]

I'm attempting to build a new AtoM 2.5 server. Because I am a glutton for punishment, I'm building this on RHEL 7 with Puppet. I've been using the gist from Santiago Rodríguez (

https://gist.github.com/scollazo/7a13dbea3ea88f8d7463befa4e996d0d) as a guide, but have a few questions.

He installs Python, pip, and several Python modules (sphinx, sphinxcontrib-httpdomain, sphinx_rtd_theme).  None of this is mentioned in AtoM 2.5's official instructions when installing under Ubuntu.  Is that because these are already available in a base Ubuntu server install?  Is Python (and those listed modules) a requirement for AtoM, and if so, what version should I be installing on my RHEL box?  pip warns me that Python 2.7 is EOL and that I should upgrade.  That implies I should maybe using some version of Python 3, but I'm not sure what version is recommended.

Thanks!

- Darryl

[José Raddaoui]

Hi Darryl,

You don't need Python/pip/sphinx for a normal AtoM deploy. AFAIK, they're used for the AtoM documentation repository, so maybe Santiago was creating a development/testing machine.

Best regards.

[Darryl Friesen]

Thanks José.  That's great news, because installing a working version of pip on a RHEL 7 machine via Puppet is turning out to be a huge hassle!! I shall just ignore those steps!  :)

- Darryl