From febafffecf3437746e1af33179cb91f1a0f379e6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Erik Johnston Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2024 10:45:25 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Remove spurious TODO in debian install step --- docs/setup/installation.md | 8 +++----- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/setup/installation.md b/docs/setup/installation.md index f538e1498a6..9cebb89b4d9 100644 --- a/docs/setup/installation.md +++ b/docs/setup/installation.md @@ -52,8 +52,6 @@ architecture via . To install the latest release: -TODO UPDATE ALL THIS - ```sh sudo apt install -y lsb-release wget apt-transport-https sudo wget -O /usr/share/keyrings/matrix-org-archive-keyring.gpg https://packages.matrix.org/debian/matrix-org-archive-keyring.gpg @@ -316,7 +314,7 @@ sudo dnf group install "Development Tools" *Note: The term "RHEL" below refers to both Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Rocky Linux. The distributions are 1:1 binary compatible.* -It's recommended to use the latest Python versions. +It's recommended to use the latest Python versions. RHEL 8 in particular ships with Python 3.6 by default which is EOL and therefore no longer supported by Synapse. RHEL 9 ship with Python 3.9 which is still supported by the Python core team as of this writing. However, newer Python versions provide significant performance improvements and they're available in official distributions' repositories. Therefore it's recommended to use them. @@ -346,7 +344,7 @@ dnf install python3.12 python3.12-devel ``` Finally, install common prerequisites ```bash -dnf install libicu libicu-devel libpq5 libpq5-devel lz4 pkgconf +dnf install libicu libicu-devel libpq5 libpq5-devel lz4 pkgconf dnf group install "Development Tools" ``` ###### Using venv module instead of virtualenv command @@ -355,7 +353,7 @@ It's recommended to use Python venv module directly rather than the virtualenv c * On RHEL 9, virtualenv is only available on [EPEL](https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/epel/). * On RHEL 8, virtualenv is based on Python 3.6. It does not support creating 3.11/3.12 virtual environments. -Here's an example of creating Python 3.12 virtual environment and installing Synapse from PyPI. +Here's an example of creating Python 3.12 virtual environment and installing Synapse from PyPI. ```bash mkdir -p ~/synapse From eb9b8ee870cd0273e895851038586ad24211d634 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Erik Johnston Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2024 10:47:29 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Newsfile --- changelog.d/17749.doc | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) create mode 100644 changelog.d/17749.doc diff --git a/changelog.d/17749.doc b/changelog.d/17749.doc new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..f00c0be3b73 --- /dev/null +++ b/changelog.d/17749.doc @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Remove spurious "TODO UPDATE ALL THIS" note in the Debian installation docs.