From 829b4f7d3268800900e33cf587db4f3b0bbfba81 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Louise Crow Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2014 18:13:13 +0100 Subject: Update instructions on manually installing tricky package dependencies --- docs/installing/manual_install.md | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'docs/installing') 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 -- cgit v1.2.3