How to install a stable version on Lucid Lynx?

Hi,

Our current stable version and the one we recommend to install for production is eBox 1.4 over Ubuntu Hardy.

The 1.5.x series are our effort to transition from one LTS release (hardy) to the next one (Lucid). This takes time, and it's not an overnight task. Keep in mind that Lucid was released a month ago.

Having said that, we are currently working on 1.5.x which eventually become 2.0 and will be released as our next stable version. Our tentative release date is by the end of July.

You can install the latest 1.5 packages from:

https://launchpad.net/~ebox/+archive/1.5

Thanks

gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

add this line:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ebox/1.4/ubuntu hardy main

replace hardy with your release name if you do not use hardy. Save the new file close gedit then run:

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 342D17AC

You can now run:

sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get upgrade

You will now have 1.4

ciao,

1) I appreciate your efforts in developing eBox. but I do not understand why a development release is provided in the Ubuntu 10.04 repositories by the maintainers.

2) having said this, it's not that easy to install the 1.4-packages by just adding the 1.4-ppa, because there is the 1.5-version in the Ubuntu universe repositories.

3) so i tried apt-pinning with the following (yet rough) configuration:

Package: *
Pin: origin ppa.launchpad.net
Pin-Priority: 1001

installing the 1.4-packages this way is possible.

but then, activating the User module in the interface brings up that bug with LDAP. i give it up.

Hi,

Ok, let's try clarify this:

a) There are some parts of eBox that are quite coupled to the underlying OS and the package version of the services it manages. An example of this is openLDAP, there's a huge difference between the way that LDAP configuration is managed in Hardy and Lucid.

b) 1.5 is basically 1.4 with the necessary changes to make it work on top of Lucid.

c) That means that you cannot install 1.4 in Lucid, because you would need to adapt it to Lucid. Again, the LDAP part is an example of the necessary changes. And that's exactly the purpose of 1.5: adapting 1.4 to Lucid.