Development install on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

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I just successfully installed Discourse into a VirtualBox instance of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Server edition. Here are the things I had to do to get it working conveniently from my host machine.

I followed these instructions for the developer advanced install.

discourse/DEVELOPER-ADVANCED.md at master · discourse/discourse · GitHub

1.The instructions seem to assume an earlier version of Ubuntu in one place.

Problem:

E: Package ‘python-software-properties’ has no installation candidate

Solution:

take out “python-software-properties”

sudo apt-get install software-properties-common

2. bundle install failed

To get “bundle instal” to work I needed to execute

sudo apt-get install libpq-dev

3. Getting mailcatcher to work so I could view it from the host

I had to run mailcatcher this way:

mailcatcher --ip=0.0.0.0

4. Being able to use SSH to get into the host

I found it convenient to SSH into the Ubuntu 18.04 guest so I could copy/paste. I used this tutorial to get it working.

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Is this install intended for development purposes?

Your title doesn’t indicate it, but as production installs require docker I’ve updated the title so that others aren’t misled. I’m also recategorizing as #dev as #installation is exclusively for the docker install.

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