[16271] in athena10
Re: Debathena for 18.04
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Benjamin Kaduk)
Wed Jan 30 21:57:53 2019
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2019 20:57:45 -0600
From: Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu>
To: Damian Barabonkov <damianb@mit.edu>
CC: <debathena@mit.edu>
Message-ID: <20190131025745.GH49072@kduck.mit.edu>
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Hi Damian,
It looks like, while we have built some packages for Bionic, we haven't
updated the installer to allow (beta) installation from scratch. So the
easiest options would be to install an older version of Ubuntu, install
debathena, then upgrade, or to manually add the package repositories and
run through the other steps performed by the installer (e.g., adding the
key for the debathena APT repository). Neither of these are particularly
friendly to the user, and we really ought to do better at keeping the
installer updated. Unfortunately, volunteer time is more scarce than it
used to be, so it hasn't happened yet.
You may be able to find someone at the SIPB office who would walk through
one of these procedures with you in person, though.
Sorry for the not-so-great news,
Ben
On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 04:39:53PM -0500, Damian Barabonkov wrote:
> Hi Debathena,
>
>
> I'm trying to install Debathena on my Ubuntu 18.04, largely so that
> I get AFS mounting automatically and that the campus printers work
> nicely. Running the installation script from
> https://debathena.mit.edu/install, it tells me that 18.04 is not
> supported. But I saw on athena that you guys were upgrading all of the
> campus computers to 18.04, so there must be some support somewhere.
>
>
> Do you have any ideas as for how I could get debathena installed locally
> on my Ubuntu 18.04 computer?
>
>
> Thanks!
>
> -Damian
>
