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| author | Louise Crow <louise.crow@gmail.com> | 2014-07-07 18:13:13 +0100 |
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| committer | Louise Crow <louise.crow@gmail.com> | 2014-07-08 12:25:12 +0100 |
| commit | 829b4f7d3268800900e33cf587db4f3b0bbfba81 (patch) | |
| tree | 51b2128c40d1f330a4590c1420af16f8d4b054e5 | |
| parent | 0b2c222ba575f7c166cd6c6612286f6153497e64 (diff) | |
Update instructions on manually installing tricky package dependencies
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/installing/manual_install.md | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/docs/installing/manual_install.md b/docs/installing/manual_install.md index f5038a46c..b8e559044 100644 --- a/docs/installing/manual_install.md +++ b/docs/installing/manual_install.md @@ -170,6 +170,8 @@ repository - we only want to pull wkhtmltopdf-static from mysociety. No special package pinning is required. +### Other platforms +If you're using some other linux platform, you can optionally install these dependencies manually, as follows: 1. If you would like users to be able to get pretty PDFs as part of the @@ -183,7 +185,9 @@ everything will still work, but users will get ugly, plain text versions of their requests when they download them. 2. Version 1.44 of `pdftk` contains a bug which makes it loop forever in -certain edge conditions. Until it's incorporated into an official release, you +certain edge conditions. This is fixed in the standard 1.44.7 package which is available in wheezy (Debian) and raring (Ubuntu). + +If you can't get an official release for your OS with the fix, you can either hope you don't encounter the bug (it ties up a rails process until you kill it), patch it yourself, or use the Debian package compiled by mySociety (see link in [issue |