if i am running ERPNext on Ubuntu 18 and upgrade Ubuntu to 20 (using SSH commands) without touching ERPNext install; would ERP Next continue to work properly or am i likely to face issues?
It should work fine, unless libraries etc are changed or removed by the upgrade process.
If you make a backup of your ERPNext system before you do the upgrade, you will be able to get back to a working system if the upgrade goes wrong.
anyone here tried it? any experiences ?
Complete and utter disaster⌠Frappe was rendered non-functional and the site never came back online. AVOID.
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No worries, friend⌠Glad to help!
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Iâm currently running a development instance of ERPNext on Ubuntu 20.04. Fresh install, not an upgrade.
I agree with @trentmu that for the most part, ERPNext has very few dependencies on Linux/Ubuntu. Almost all the dependencies are 3rd party packages.
With that said, here are the 2 biggest differences to watch for, if youâre installing/upgrading in 2020.
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Ubuntu 20.04 no longer ships with Python2. If your ERPNext (or any installed dependencies) rely on Python 2? Youâll need to upgrade those packages to Python3 compatibility.
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NodeJS 13+ no longer depends on Python2. HoweverâŚNode 12 and earlier still do. This could place your installation in a situation where ERPNext and its Python packages are targeting Python3. But your Node might still expect Python2!
As long as you keep those things in mind, ERPNext manually installs quite fine on Ubuntu 20.04.
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thanks for guidance but this would require lot of technical know how and i am a novice with basic knowledge.
anyone knows when can we expect a ubuntu 20 based erpnext system? are there any plans for it even?
You can freshly install on Ubuntu 20 right now. No special skills needed.
But if you want to upgrade to Ubuntu 20 from an older distro? That may (or may not) be more difficult.
would easy install work for fresh installation on Ubuntu 20?
It âshouldâ. Itâs supposed to. However, I cannot say Iâve personally tested that. Iâm using Ubuntu 20.04, but I never install using easy install.
Sorry for appending to old post, but just tried in place upgrade for ERPNext Ver 12 from Ubuntu 18.04 to 20.04 and was massive fail. Had to go back to snapshot pre-upgrade. Issue was running ERPNext on python 3.7 which got eliminated and python 3.8 installed. Was never able to get bench to work afterwards even though python and python3 symlinks pointed correctly to 3.8.
Ideas for next attempt? Move to python 3.8 on Ubuntu 18.04 before upgrade? Delete 3.7 before upgrade? ??
To explain, letâs assume youâre installing Frappe/ERPNext for the first time, on a brand-new host.
When Frappe/ERPNext is installed, it creates a Python Virtual Environment in a subdirectory named 'env':
This virtual environment is linked to a specific version of Python, installed on your system. It also contains all the 3rd party Python packages that ERNext requires. Also semi-specific to your version of Python.
So now, you upgrade Ubuntu from 18.04 to 20.04. The operating system removes Python 3.7, and replaces with Python 3.8. What happens to the 'env' Python Virtual environment?
WellâŚit breaks. 
Because even though Ubuntu has valid 'python' and 'python3' symlinks pointing at the correct files, the particular Python Virtual Environment links inside âenvâ arenât touched
(as 3rd party software, Ubuntu has no idea that Frappe and ERPNext exist)
Furthermore, all the Python packages in âenvâ are also still Python 3.7 packages.
To solve this, you must rebuild the Python virtual environment âenvâ. Itâs definitely possible to do so manually, however there is a Bench command for doing this:
bench migrate-env <path_to_your_python>
That command âshouldâ solve your upgrade issue.
(from a Python perspective anyway; there are other potential pitfalls when updating the OS)
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