Geonode installation on Ubuntu fails

Question

attention: This might be more a question for "askubuntu.stackexchange" but it is GIS-related Geonode 2.0 is available for Ubuntu 12.04 but not for Ubuntu 14.04. According to the docs it should be sufficient to make an

sudo apt-get install python-software-properties
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:geonode/release
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install geonode

I have a fresh install of Ubuntu Server 12.04 with a default LAMP configuration and it already fails on the first line:

Depends: python-pycurl but is not installable

The first line works on Ubuntu 14.04 but geonode will not be installable on 14.04. I am somewhere stucked. Is there a Geonode release available for 14.04?

Answer 1

It seems that a stable version of geonode 2.x branch is not still released for Ubuntu 14.04. The suggestion of the developers is install the testing 2.4 version from the ppa.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:geonode/testing
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install geonode

geonode createsuperuser
sudo geonode-updateip 127.0.0.1

You can also try to install it by hand as is shown in this post, where is installed in virtual machine of ubuntu 14.04 with vagrant.

Answer 2

I confirm that ppa:geonode/testing works on Ubuntu 14.04; then you have to add at the end of the file /etc/geonode/local_settings.py (otherwise you'll have this error 403 forbidden DEBUG is set to False but the host of the path provided to the proxy service is not in the PROXY_ALLOWED_HOSTS setting) this line:

PROXY_ALLOWED_HOSTS = ('127.0.0.1',)

and then restart apache /etc/init.d/apache2 restart.