Ubuntu 20.04: SSO, pilerpurge.py

[alu-one]

Hi,

during installing a new Ubuntu 20.04 distribution with piler, I encountered some small issues:

• libapache2-mod-auth-ntlm-winbind (needed for SSO) is not available via apt any more. I had to copy the module from the previous 18.04 system (/usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_auth_ntlm_winbind.so).
• pilerpurge.py does not run because you need Python 2 with mysql-python. Python 2 seems to be deprecated, pip has to be installed manually, “pip install mysql-python” fails afterwards with some errors, I guess regarding MariaDB; mariadb_config has to be linked to mysql_config, then pip package install fails again because of a missing “reconnect” method. I gave up here, hoping pilerpurge.py is not necessarily needed if I don’t need retention rules.

It would be great if you could find some improvements or workarounds for this in the future.

Thank you, best regards

[Janos SUTO]

Well, ubuntu 20.04 is not supported yet. Anyway, I’m not sure how I could provide a better workaround than what you did. Also pilerpurge.py has already switched to python3 recently. Though you are right, you don't need it if you don’t want to purge any emails.

[Ryan Blenis]

FYI @alu-one I just installed piler 1.3.8 on Ubuntu 20.04 and it’s running fine.

For mariadb_config, just apt install libmariadbclient-dev (IIRC, I believe that’s the one)

No issues running pilerpurge.py here (though looking in apt I have python3 and python2 installed). I don’t have pip installed either, so I didn’t try the pip package, but it is not needed.

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[Janos SUTO]

Thank you for the clarification.

[Janos SUTO]

Just upgraded my ci/cd pipeline to support Ubuntu 20.04 (and dropped 16.04), and it seems to work properly.