Upgrading Ubuntu from 12.04 to 14.04

[Elazar Leibovich]

I'd urge you to consider using virtualenv to manage python dependencies.

The only OS dependency you'd have, is python. You shouldn't care about
dependencies beyond that.

This is even more correct when deploying your application.


On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 3:20 PM, Uri Even-Chen <uri at speedy.net> wrote:

> Hi people,
>
> I work at my job with Ubuntu 12.04 and we run Django 1.4.12 locally with
> Python 2.7.3 and PostgreSQL. We want to upgrade Django from 1.4 to 1.6 and
> I also thought it would be a good idea to upgrade Python to 2.7.6 and maybe
> even 3, so I tried to upgrade Ubuntu to 14.04. But after I completed the
> upgrade, Django didn't work and I couldn't even run migrations (with
> South). I had to reinstall Ubuntu 12.04 and I lost all the files I had in
> my home directory (because I chose not to keep Ubuntu 14.04) except some
> files that I backed up. My questions are:
>
> 1. What do we need to do in order for Django to work with Ubuntu 14.04?
> 2. Why isn't it possible to reinstall Ubuntu 12.04 after upgrading to
> 14.04 and still keep all the files in my home directory, while not keeping
> all the other files (the operating system files)?
>
> Thanks,
> Uri Even-Chen
> Mobile Phone: +972-50-9007559
> E-mail: uri at speedy.net
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