From 71ce3082c5e0611f77eb423a15b4b36267ebfda4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: ryan Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2018 13:09:19 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] (docs) deprecate ubuntu 14 --- docs/install.md | 9 +++++++-- docs/manual/preparing-the-server/index.md | 2 +- 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/install.md b/docs/install.md index 3801898c2..48fe281f6 100644 --- a/docs/install.md +++ b/docs/install.md @@ -1,11 +1,16 @@ # Installing LibreTime -LibreTime should generally be installed on a dedicated host. By default, its installer will install and configure all its dependencies. At the moment, the installer works best on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus), or Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS (Trusty Tahr). +LibreTime should generally be installed on a dedicated host running Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus). + +Once you have downloaded and extracted the LibreTime repository, run the instalation script by navigating into the folder containing the LibreTime codebase, and run it's install script from the command line: :::bash sudo ./install -Instalation in Debian 9 and other Linux distributions is possible, but multiple outstanding issues have yet to be resolved. +By default, the installer will install and configure all dependencies. + +## Alternative OS installations +Instalation in Debian 9 and other Linux distributions is possible, but multiple outstanding issues have yet to be resolved. Instalation on Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS (Trusty Tahr) is also working, but deprecated due to the fact that this version will reach its official end of life in April 2019. Plans are in the works for `.deb` and `.rpm` packages, as well as Docker and AWS images. diff --git a/docs/manual/preparing-the-server/index.md b/docs/manual/preparing-the-server/index.md index da2359045..cef67b6b1 100644 --- a/docs/manual/preparing-the-server/index.md +++ b/docs/manual/preparing-the-server/index.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ The following instructions assume that you have root access (**sudo** on most distributions) to a GNU/Linux server, and are familiar with basic command line tasks. Experienced system administrators may prefer to skip to [Expert install](../expert-install/) in the appendix of manual after having prepared a server with the needed dependencies show below. -The recommended Libretime server platform is Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus), or Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS (Trusty Tahr). +The recommended Libretime server platform is Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus). The server should have at least a 1GHz processor and 1GB of RAM, preferably 2GB RAM or more. If you are using a desktop environment and web browser directly on the server you should install at least 2GB RAM, to avoid swapping to disk.