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temporarily deprecate official Ubuntu packages

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They are not currently updated and fail to install on
Ubuntu 16.04. Also update the instructions to refer to
the earliest supported LTS (Ubuntu 12.04).

fixes #2137 and closes #2076
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Ashish Kulkarni 2016-08-05 12:54:18 +05:30 committed by Paul Tremberth
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Python 3 is not supported on Windows. This is because Scrapy core requirement Twisted does not support
Python 3 on Windows.
Ubuntu 9.10 or above
--------------------
Ubuntu 12.04 or above
---------------------
**Don't** use the ``python-scrapy`` package provided by Ubuntu, they are
typically too old and slow to catch up with latest Scrapy.
typically too old and slow to catch up with latest Scrapy. You will need
to install the following system packages::
Instead, use the official :ref:`Ubuntu Packages <topics-ubuntu>`, which already
solve all dependencies for you and are continuously updated with the latest bug
fixes.
sudo apt-get install python-pip python-twisted python-openssl python-lxml
If you prefer to build the python dependencies locally instead of relying on
system packages you'll need to install their required non-python dependencies

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@ -11,6 +11,9 @@ those in Ubuntu, and more stable too since they're continuously built from
`GitHub repo`_ (master & stable branches) and so they contain the latest bug
fixes.
.. caution:: These packages are currently not updated and may not work on
Ubuntu 16.04 and above, see :issue:`2076` and :issue:`2137`.
To use the packages:
1. Import the GPG key used to sign Scrapy packages into APT keyring::