Create Ubuntu-17.10.md and add more purpose

XavCC commented 6 years ago

After testing

Can also bu used to correct Installing cjdns on Ubuntu 16.04 command lines error.

Then, I wrote a quick starter in french with installation, config, password with fix about cat command writting, available here

thefinn93 commented 6 years ago

A couple of thoughts about this line:

apt-get install nodejs make gcc git python 2.7

Is python required? I dont remember that being used in the build system anymore, but I could be wrong.
2.7 does not appear to be a valid Ubuntu package, I assume that was supposed to be python 2.7, but the python package in Ubuntu 17.10 is version 2.7, so there's no need to specify (if we really wanted to specify, the package name is python2.7).
Are make and gcc all that's needed? I have historically always installed build-essential, seems to be the generally recommended package to install when doing any sort of building of C/C++ (I'm not sure about this one)

XavCC commented 6 years ago

thanks for your questions @thefinn93

python

As usual as noob I am I start from a [draftin official DOC](https://github.com/hyperboria/docs/blob/master/install/ubuntu-16.04.mdt by @ansuz with an observation on : apt-get install nodejs make gcc git python2 so python2 isn't a package

python 2.7

Then, meshwith.me for linux doesn't have guide lines.

So, i had a look why, where and how python is used for cjdns : results

so there's no need to specify python (if we really wanted to specify, the package name is python2.7), i made an error by my hands when i wrote it. It's Python 2.7.14 that I need under Ubuntu gnome artful 17.10.

for example :

$ python2 -v
# installing zipimport hook
import zipimport # builtin
# installed zipimport hook
# /usr/lib/python2.7/site.pyc matches /usr/lib/python2.7/site.py
import site # precompiled from /usr/lib/python2.7/site.pyc
# /usr/lib/python2.7/os.pyc matches /usr/lib/python2.7/os.py
import os # precompiled from /usr/lib/python2.7/os.pyc
import errno # builtin
import posix # builtin
[...]

But on my labtop I this time i missed python 2.7

`make` and `gc`

My mates & me choose them in order to wrote something easier for a new installer. but it's really and obviously to dig to find out if this is really the simplest.

I 've to ask and talk with my mates about it.

is it clear for you ?

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