Rasa Masterclass Ep #9 - Doesn't work with latest version

[Deprecated] Rasa X Community Edition
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The Rasa Masterclass series is excellent! I’ve been following along and its helped me a lot.

Is there something wrong with the latest Rasa X installer? Episode #9 showed using version 0.23.3 but said they recommend using the latest version. As far as I can tell, the latest version is 0.24.6. But that fails to install on a Google VM setup as episode #9 shows. However if I downgrade to version 0.23.3, form the video, then everything installs fine.

user@rasa-x-server:~$ curl -sSL -o install.sh https://storage.googleapis.com/rasa-x-releases/0.24.6/install.sh
user@rasa-x-server:~$ sudo bash ./install.sh
Installing pip and ansible
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package python3-distutils

Which fails with error “E: Unable to locate package python3-distutils” But downgrading to version 0.23.3 works fine…

user@rasa-x-server:~$ curl -sSL -o install.sh https://storage.googleapis.com/rasa-x-releases/0.23.3/install.sh
user@rasa-x-server:~$ sudo bash ./install.sh
Installing pip and ansible
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
python3 is already the newest version (3.5.1-3).
...

Is there something wrong with the latest Rasa X installer?

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Hey @jwhitmer this is a issue I’m working on and is related to Debian 16.04 not needing the distutils and 18.04 needing it so I’m working on fixing this in the install script. For now you can just comment out this line in the install.sh and it will work:

sudo apt-get install python3 python3-distutils -y

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Thank you Brian. I’ll comment out that line and try again.

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Hi @jwhitmer, were you able to get it working? You may have still needed to install python3, but not the disutils, making the line

sudo apt-get install python3

This was also fixed in 0.25.0, so it shouldn’t be an issue if you try again with the latest release (now 0.25.1?)