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new a5b528c Update the installation document based on Python 3.6+ (#6370)
a5b528c is described below
commit a5b528c68890eb0090d97c4920725dcfa3d93d8a
Author: Kengo Seki <sek...@apache.org>
AuthorDate: Wed Nov 14 18:14:11 2018 -0800
Update the installation document based on Python 3.6+ (#6370)
* Update the description based on Ubuntu 16.04 with 18.04,
since Python version bundled with the former is 3.5,
which is not already supported
* Remove obsolete descriptions based on Python <= 3.5
---
docs/installation.rst | 17 +++++++++--------
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/docs/installation.rst b/docs/installation.rst
index 75f6d25..d5c63c4 100644
--- a/docs/installation.rst
+++ b/docs/installation.rst
@@ -78,9 +78,9 @@ the required dependencies are installed: ::
sudo apt-get install build-essential libssl-dev libffi-dev python-dev
python-pip libsasl2-dev libldap2-dev
-**Ubuntu 16.04** If you have python3.5 installed alongside with python2.7, as
is default on **Ubuntu 16.04 LTS**, run this command also: ::
+**Ubuntu 18.04** If you have python3.6 installed alongside with python2.7, as
is default on **Ubuntu 18.04 LTS**, run this command also: ::
- sudo apt-get install build-essential libssl-dev libffi-dev python3.5-dev
python-pip libsasl2-dev libldap2-dev
+ sudo apt-get install build-essential libssl-dev libffi-dev python3.6-dev
python-pip libsasl2-dev libldap2-dev
otherwise build for ``cryptography`` fails.
@@ -105,17 +105,18 @@ attempt it, download `get-pip.py
<https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py>`_, and r
Python virtualenv
-----------------
-It is recommended to install Superset inside a virtualenv. Python 3 already
ships virtualenv, for
-Python 2 you need to install it. If it's packaged for your operating systems
install it from there
-otherwise you can install from pip: ::
+It is recommended to install Superset inside a virtualenv. Python 3 already
ships virtualenv.
+But if it's not installed in your environment for some reason, you can install
it
+via the package for your operating systems, otherwise you can install from
pip: ::
pip install virtualenv
You can create and activate a virtualenv by: ::
- # virtualenv is shipped in Python 3 as pyvenv
- virtualenv venv
- . ./venv/bin/activate
+ # virtualenv is shipped in Python 3.6+ as venv instead of pyvenv.
+ # See https://docs.python.org/3.6/library/venv.html
+ python3 -m venv venv
+ . venv/bin/activate
On windows the syntax for activating it is a bit different: ::
