Add instructions for dealing with the Python 2 vs 3 mess

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Riyad Preukschas 2012-12-07 17:32:38 +01:00
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@ -38,7 +38,24 @@ Make sure your system is up-to-date:
Install the required packages:
sudo apt-get install -y wget curl build-essential checkinstall libxml2-dev libxslt-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libreadline6-dev libc6-dev libssl-dev zlib1g-dev libicu-dev redis-server openssh-server git-core python2.7 libyaml-dev postfix
sudo apt-get install -y wget curl build-essential checkinstall libxml2-dev libxslt-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libreadline6-dev libc6-dev libssl-dev zlib1g-dev libicu-dev redis-server openssh-server git-core libyaml-dev postfix
Make sure you have the right version of Python installed.
# Install Python
sudo apt-get install python
# Make sure that Python is 2.x (3.x is not supported at the moment)
python --version
# If it's Python 3 you might need to install Python 2 separately
sudo apt-get install python2.7
# Make sure you can access Python via `python2`
python2 --version
# If you get a "command not found" error create a link to the python binary
sudo ln -s /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/python2
# 2. Ruby