How to upgrade from schooltool 2.1 to 2.4

Hi Lyla,

You may need to upgrade your version of Ubuntu or switch to one of our package repositories (rather than just Ubuntu Universe).

Here's the somewhat complicated grid of which versions of SchoolTool are available for which versions of Ubuntu:

http://book.schooltool.org/release-notes.html

Which version of Ubuntu are you running?

Whoops, okay that would be it. I'm on 12.04 and if I'm reading this correctly I need to update to 12.10. I'll do that and see if it works.

Thank you!

Backing up your database (and image files): http://book.schooltool.org/database.html

No, if you want to stay on the LTS release of Ubuntu, but upgrade SchoolTool to 2.4, you can add a dev PPA. See http://book.schooltool.org/install-dev.html

Regarding apt-cache show schooltool, there are two versions in your system: 2.1.0 from universe, and 2.1.1 from the ppa, an update. A better command to see what versions are available and where from, is

  $ apt-cache policy schooltool

I knew it was going to take a while so I started the upgrade before seeing menesis comment. So I am now running Ubuntu 12.10. Using apt-get update/dist-upgrade, I was able to get 2.3. I then saw the feature I was interested in (the Javascript widget to enter in comments) was in 2.4.

I added the dev ppa and did the same. It now claims to be 2.4, but says the following when I try to upgrade via apt-get:

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
  python-schooltool python-schooltool.cando python-schooltool.gradebook
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded.

I tried sudo apt-get install schooltool and sudo apt-get upgrade as well.

Then based off of what I read here (http://askubuntu.com/questions/601/the-following-packages-have-been-kept-back-why-and-how-do-i-solve-it) I tried manually telling it to install the python-schooltool package:

sudo apt-get install python-schooltool
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 python-schooltool : Depends: python-pillow but it is not installable
                     Breaks: python-schooltool.cando (< 0.7) but 0.4.4-0ubuntu1 is to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

Is there anything I can do short of uninstalling schooltool? Is uninstalling schooltool safe if I have a backup of the database?

Thank you!

I would try 'sudo apt-get install python-pillow' more to see what error message you get than hope that it would fix things. python-pillow is just a virtual package for python-imaging. Gediminas should be able to sort this out Monday.

If you have the Data.fs file and, if you have any ID photos, the 'blobs" directory in /var/lib/schooltool, then you can safely reinstall SchoolTool or the whole OS and just drop the DB back in place.

Sorry about the inconvenience.

Upon trying "sudo apt-get install python-pillow"
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package python-pillow is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only available from another source

Herm. Hope that information will help. I'm nervous about reinstalling so I'll hold off until that is the only option. Thank you for the continued assistance, I really apperciate it.

This seems like something we should be able to sort out quickly.

I uploaded the same .deb as to raring, but there are differences in dependencies. I will fix this today.

Missing python-pillow error has been fixed for quantal and precise.

Fixed by this upload

schooltool (1:2.4.0-0ubuntu1~quantal3) quantal; urgency=low

  * debian/series: add python-imaging.patch
  * debian/patches/python-imaging.patch: refresh so that it applies.

 -- Gediminas Paulauskas <email address hidden> Mon, 22 Apr 2013 21:23:32 +0300