Installing CKAN on Ubuntu

Install dependencies

Required dependencies for CKAN are mono 5 and the development libraries of libcurl.

Ubuntu repo's however only offer mono 4.

so we first have to add the offical mono repo's:

go to the mono download page and follow the newest instructions in step 1 for your ubuntu version.

(17.04 users follow 16.04 instructions, 18.10 users follow 18.04 instructions, etc...)

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install mono:

sudo apt install mono-complete ca-certificates-mono libcurl4-openssl-dev

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For Ubuntu/Mint 17/18 Users that don't want to install the many unnecessary packages dragged in by mono-complete as detailed above.

sudo apt install ca-certificates-mono libmono-accessibility4.0-cil libmono-addins-gui0.2-cil libmono-addins0.2-cil libmono-cairo4.0-cil libmono-corlib4.5-cil libmono-data-tds4.0-cil libmono-i18n-west4.0-cil libmono-i18n4.0-cil libmono-ldap4.0-cil libmono-microsoft-csharp4.0-cil libmono-posix4.0-cil libmono-security4.0-cil libmono-sharpzip4.84-cil libmono-sqlite4.0-cil libmono-system-componentmodel-dataannotations4.0-cil libmono-system-configuration4.0-cil libmono-system-core4.0-cil libmono-system-data4.0-cil libmono-system-design4.0-cil libmono-system-drawing4.0-cil libmono-system-enterpriseservices4.0-cil libmono-system-ldap4.0-cil libmono-system-net-http-webrequest4.0-cil libmono-system-net-http4.0-cil libmono-system-numerics4.0-cil libmono-system-runtime-serialization-formatters-soap4.0-cil libmono-system-runtime-serialization4.0-cil libmono-system-security4.0-cil libmono-system-servicemodel-internals0.0-cil libmono-system-transactions4.0-cil libmono-system-web-applicationservices4.0-cil libmono-system-web-services4.0-cil libmono-system-web4.0-cil libmono-system-windows-forms4.0-cil libmono-system-xml-linq4.0-cil libmono-system-xml4.0-cil libmono-system4.0-cil libmono-webbrowser4.0-cil libmono-zeroconf1.0-cil mono-4.0-gac mono-gac mono-runtime mono-runtime-common mono-runtime-sgen

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Import certificates

See SSL certificate errors if you encounter errors related to certificates.

install CKAN

Download the .deb from latest release of CKAN and double click the file to install.

alternative

Download the .exe and in console run with

mono ckan.exe

If that doesn't work, try:

/usr/local/bin/mono ckan.exe

On some systems CKAN might present an error/warning about not being able to set x locale modifiers. This can be fixed by running:

LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 /usr/local/bin/mono ckan.exe