Re: [HTCondor-users] HTCondor on Ubuntu 12.04

[Brian Candler <b.candler@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 19/09/2013 21:04, Tim Theisen wrote:
> It appears that there is demand for running HTCondor on Ubuntu 12.04 
> (Precise Pangolin). Previously, users have been using the Debian 
> package on Ubuntu without difficultly. However, since the advent of 
> python bindings, the HTCondor .deb will not install cleanly on Ubuntu 
> 12.04 because of the different versions of python installed between 
> Ubuntu and Debian.
>
> We plan to support Ubuntu 12.04 in the very near future. As an interim 
> measure, I have put .deb files and tarballs for Ubuntu 12.04 on our 
> download site for HTCondor versions 8.0.2 and 8.1.1. These builds are 
> made for our internal build system. So, they are exercised quite a 
> bit. They do not have all features of HTCondor enabled. These builds 
> do not support the 'standard universe' which provides transparent 
> checkpoint and migration. However, the packages will install cleanly 
> on Ubuntu 12.04.
>
> Consider these files to be a preview into Ubuntu 12.04 support.
>
> Any comments and feedback are welcome.
A thought: although it's not advertised in the front page at 
http://research.cs.wisc.edu/htcondor/debian/, I discovered there is now 
a Debian Wheezy package available in the repo.

This *does* seem to install under Ubuntu 12.04 just fine (I tried it 
with 8.0.2, which is the latest available in the repo). It has a 
dependency on libpython2.7 (>= 2.7). I haven't tested that it works 
properly, other than restarting condor.

So whilst a supported package and repo specifically for Ubuntu would be 
great, maybe we can live without for now.

Regards,

Brian.