Ubuntu 24

[Robert Richardson]

Hi all,

We have been running QATrack for some years now and are currently hosting on a old fat client with Ubuntu 20.  Out IT team are insisting we move over to a VM with ubuntu 24, we've attempted the installation (including reducing python from 3.12 to 3.9) but the installation isn't working (mainly issues with requirements.txt).  Has anyone successfully deployed on 24 or is it a non-compatible OS?  Juist before I re-image the VM and try again and advice appreciated.

Thanks,

Rob

[tbe...@gmail.com]

Hi Rob,

as far as I remember the latest ubuntu version that was compatible with QAtrack was 22.04. LTS. At least that is what I am running. There was/is a branch from QATrack+ called python3.10 that changed I think only one package in the requirements to make QATrack work with python3.10.

As you might have read here in the list Cody is preparing a new release that is compatible with python3.12 which is almost finished it seems. It might be the best idea to wait some more and move directly to QATrack 4.

The main problem with older python version in ubuntu is that you have to compile mod-wsgi for the python version in use which is probably quite time consuming.

https://groups.google.com/g/qatrack/c/bpBfur1EjGM/m/fBdu8EVnAQAJ

regards

Thomas

[Robert Richardson]

Thanks Thomas,

Sounds like a sensible course of action to hold of atm, hopefully out IT team will be okay with a delay in moving over to 24.

Rob

[Cody Crewson]

Robert, 

How adventurous are you feeling? If you have access to your 24 VM would you be open to trying 4.0? Right now our we're missing upgrade documentation. If you look at the Dev-SCA branch and the Developer install instructions give it a shot with your production data. All notes are appreciated 

[M. D. Lund]

Hi all,

Has anyone had any luck with QATrack+ on Ubuntu 24.04 yet? I have been trying to install on 24.04, but run into what seems like permission issues (and I am no Linux expert).

Any advice is greatly appreciated.

Best regards,

Mikkel

[Ben Earner]

I'm quite a fan of using Ubuntu's inbuilt LXD container solution (https://canonical.com/lxd) which will come with your Ubuntu installation by default. This allows you to decouple the host OS from the OS required for your app. So you can run QATrack in a Ubuntu 20LTS container on a 24LTS host OS. It's lightweight so doesn't use much extra resources. 

Ben

[Cody Crewson]

Ben, 

If you're willing to put together some documentation on how you got it working, we could add it to the documentation as an unsupported configuration. Going forward the supported installs will be 
Windows or linux with Apache web services using sqlite SQL Server or Postgresql, and Docker with sqlite. If there's enough interest we could support the configuration if we have an admin willing to help troubleshooting. 

Thank you

Cody

[Ben Earner]

Hi Cody,

Here is a quick guide aimed at setting up an Ubuntu 24.04 container which would work well for version 4. For the users above, they could simply use:

lxc init ubuntu:20.04 qatrack 

Instead to get a 20.04 container instead.

Personally, I've switched to Nginx over Apache, but this setup should be agnostic as once the LXD setup is done - you can use whatever webserver you prefer in the container.

Thanks,

Ben