I am having issues with your documentation:
The ERPNext Installation Guide that I found here:
https://frappe.github.io/erpnext/install.html
Tells me to install the Frappe Bench. So I go here:
I am on an up-to-date “blank server” running Ubuntu 14.04 with LXDE as a desktop in a Virtual Machine.
I follow the "Easy Setup: steps and do this:
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/frappe/bench/master/playbooks/install.py
This looks ok: 2016-09-08 15:13:06 (156 KB/s) - ‘install.py’ saved [10340/10340]
Next I run this:
sudo python install.py --production
during installation I get several warnings that tell me: “You can upgrade to a newer version of Python to solve this”. Which I find odd.
I also get this:
Please enter mysql root password:
Re-enter mysql root password:
Please enter Administrator password:
Re-enter Administrator password:
[WARNING]: Host file not found: /etc/ansible/hosts
[WARNING]: provided hosts list is empty, only localhost is available
(None of which inspires confidence)
Finally it all falls down with this:
TASK [install pillow prerequisites for Ubuntu >= 14.04] ************************
changed: [localhost] => (item=[u’libtiff5-dev’, u’tcl8.6-dev’, u’tk8.6-dev’])
TASK [Get nodejs 6.x bash script] **********************************************
fatal: [localhost]: FAILED! => {“changed”: false, “failed”: true, “msg”: “Failed to validate the SSL certificate for deb.nodesource.com:443. Make sure your managed systems have a valid CA certificate installed. If the website serving the url uses SNI you need python >= 2.7.9 on your managed machine. You can use validate_certs=False if you do not need to confirm the server\s identity but this is unsafe and not recommended Paths checked for this platform: /etc/ssl/certs, /etc/pki/ca-trust/extracted/pem, /etc/pki/tls/certs, /usr/share/ca-certificates/cacert.org, /etc/ansible”}
NO MORE HOSTS LEFT *************************************************************
to retry, use: --limit @production/install.retry
PLAY RECAP *********************************************************************
localhost : ok=6 changed=2 unreachable=0 failed=1
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “install.py”, line 342, in
install_bench(args)
File “install.py”, line 111, in install_bench
run_playbook(‘production/install.yml’, sudo=True, extra_vars=extra_vars)
File “install.py”, line 292, in run_playbook
success = subprocess.check_call(args, cwd=os.path.join(cwd, ‘playbooks’))
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py”, line 540, in check_call
raise CalledProcessError(retcode, cmd)
subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command ‘[‘ansible-playbook’, ‘-c’, ‘local’, ‘production/install.yml’, ‘-e’, ‘@/tmp/extra_vars.json’, ‘–become’, ‘–become-user=frappe’]’ returned non-zero exit status 2
mike@ubuntu:~$
So I clone another VM and try again. This time I start with this:
sudo su (and my password) thinking that it might be a permissions thing.
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/frappe/bench/master/playbooks/install.py
Which, once again, looks fine:
2016-09-08 15:45:13 (257 KB/s) - ‘install.py’ saved [10340/10340]
root@ubuntu:/home/mike# (<— see! I’m root!)
Next I do this again:
sudo python install.py --production
Once again, I get the Python upgrade warning, as well as the “hosts” warning after entering the passwords…
and this happens again:
TASK [install pillow prerequisites for Ubuntu >= 14.04] ************************
changed: [localhost] => (item=[u’libtiff5-dev’, u’tcl8.6-dev’, u’tk8.6-dev’])
TASK [Get nodejs 6.x bash script] **********************************************
fatal: [localhost]: FAILED! => {“changed”: false, “failed”: true, “msg”: “Failed to validate the SSL certificate for deb.nodesource.com:443. Make sure your managed systems have a valid CA certificate installed. If the website serving the url uses SNI you need python >= 2.7.9 on your managed machine. You can use validate_certs=False if you do not need to confirm the server\s identity but this is unsafe and not recommended Paths checked for this platform: /etc/ssl/certs, /etc/pki/ca-trust/extracted/pem, /etc/pki/tls/certs, /usr/share/ca-certificates/cacert.org, /etc/ansible”}
NO MORE HOSTS LEFT *************************************************************
to retry, use: --limit @production/install.retry
PLAY RECAP *********************************************************************
localhost : ok=6 changed=2 unreachable=0 failed=1
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “install.py”, line 342, in
install_bench(args)
File “install.py”, line 111, in install_bench
run_playbook(‘production/install.yml’, sudo=True, extra_vars=extra_vars)
File “install.py”, line 292, in run_playbook
success = subprocess.check_call(args, cwd=os.path.join(cwd, ‘playbooks’))
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py”, line 540, in check_call
raise CalledProcessError(retcode, cmd)
subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command ‘[‘ansible-playbook’, ‘-c’, ‘local’, ‘production/install.yml’, ‘-e’, ‘@/tmp/extra_vars.json’, ‘–become’, ‘–become-user=frappe’]’ returned non-zero exit status 2
root@ubuntu:/home/mike#
So I’m stumped. And I haven’t even got to “bench setup” yet…
I have over 20 years experience as an ERP Consultant and have worked with various ERP systems over the years.
I totally embrace the Open Source concept, but I haven’t done much development since my early COBOL days. So, in lieu of development I’d like to offer my services as a Technical Writer to create “the Idiot’s Guide to Installing ERPNext” (so that even I can understand it) as my contribution.
So will somebody help me please? Once I’ve got it fully documented (using Ubuntu 14.04 and 16.04) I will take ownership and try to ensure that the document is kept current.
Regards,
Mike Stroud
midrandopensource@gmail.com
