[SR-2743] Incomplete install instructions for Ubuntu #45347
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@trfiala, do we really need libpython-dev or can we get away with a non-dev package? |
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Comment by Mason Mark (JIRA) On a fresh installation of Ubuntu 16.04, installing the non-dev libpython2.7 package fixed this issue for me:
(Using Swift 3.0.2.) |
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Comment by Valdimar Bjorn Asgeirsson (JIRA) In addition to the above, I found that I needed to install libcurl3 in order to get swift 3.0.2 to run on Ubuntu LTS 16.04.2.
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Comment by efe ertugrul (JIRA) Same issue here.
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Can we at least update the website's install instructions? We still depend on libpython2.7 and libcurl3 on Ubuntu 16.04. |
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Comment by Michael Koukoullis (JIRA) This is still an issue, an update to the website instructions would be helpful. The following four packages are required to get Swift 4.0.3 running on Ubuntu 16.04 apt-get -y install clang libicu-dev libpython2.7 libcurl3 |
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Comment by Addison Webb (JIRA) This is still an issue for Swift 4.1 (swift-4.1-RELEASE) running on Ubuntu 16.04. Updated documentation on Swift.org would be nice 🙂 |
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Comment by Dawei (JIRA) Just ran into this trying to install Swift 4.2-DEVELOPMENT-SNAPSHOT....on Ubuntu 16.04 |
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Comment by Tim Nelson (JIRA) Just ran into the same error: Ubuntu 16.04.5 swift-4.1.3-RELEASE-ubuntu16.04.tar Installing libpython2.7-dev fixed the issue for me. Only after did I see in the comments that installing libpython2.7 would maybe fix it as well. No issues here needing to install libcurl3 so maybe that was fixed? |
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Comment by Michael Koukoullis (JIRA) FWIW this is a bash script I use to provision Ubuntu machines in AWS so they can run Swift https://github.com/kouky/swift-aws-ec2/blob/master/user-data.sh The broader context for that bash script is a terraform recipe for getting Swift up and running on AWS, checkout the README in the repo https://github.com/kouky/swift-aws-ec2 |
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Comment by Tony Grue (JIRA) In addition to libpython2.7-dev I found I also needed libcurl4 for Swift 4.2.3 which has changed since Michael's post above. |
Environment
Swift 3.0 GM, Swift 4.0.2
Additional Detail from JIRA
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Issue Description:
If the package libpython2.7-dev is not installed, the following error is thrown when running swift:
This was on both a fresh Ubuntu server 14.04 and 16.04, with OpenSSH in addition to the default options. Solution; the installation instructions on the site should also instruct to install
libpython2.7-dev.Update: Additionally, if
libcurl3is not installed, which it isn't by default on Ubuntu Server, then a different and more cryptic error may occur: the REPL may emit"error: Couldn't lookup symbols"errors when trying to import Foundation and other libraries. Unlike thelibpythonerror, this one gives no clue as to what is missing. (See SR-2744 for full details.)The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: