Difference between revisions of "Issues with Installing EPrints on Ubuntu 24.04"

Latest revision as of 15:06, 1 May 2026

N.B. It is assumed that you are installing the latest version of 3.4. Earlier versions may have issues not listed here.

MySQL root user cannot be used: This is now explained under EPrints' Getting Started instructions. As it is typical for most modern Linux operating systems.
libncurses5 APT package dependency no longer exists: Install libncurses6 instead. However, as both Ubuntu 24.04 and Ubuntu 26.04 only have libncurses6 the general instructions have been updated to use libncurses6, so this is no longer an issue.

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 ==== Previous Issues ====
 ; MySQL root user cannot be used : This is now explained under EPrints' [[Getting Started]] instructions. As it is typical for most modern Linux operating systems.
-; <code>libncurses5</code> : APT package dependency no longer exists in Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, install <code>libncurses6</code> instead.  As both Ubuntu 24.04 and Ubuntu 26.04 only have libncurses6 the general instructions have been updated to use libncurses6.
+; <code>libncurses5</code> APT package dependency no longer exists : Install <code>libncurses6</code> instead.  However, as both Ubuntu 24.04 and Ubuntu 26.04 only have libncurses6 the general instructions have been updated to use libncurses6, so this is no longer an issue.