Installing a Distribution Package

Some Linux distributions offer a version of Supervisor that is installablethrough the system package manager. These packages are made by third parties,not the Supervisor developers, and often include distribution-specific changesto Supervisor.

Use the package management tools of your distribution to check availability;e.g. on Ubuntu you can run apt-cacheshowsupervisor, and on CentOSyou can run yuminfosupervisor.

A feature of distribution packages of Supervisor is that they will usuallyinclude integration into the service management infrastructure of thedistribution, e.g. allowing supervisord to automatically start whenthe system boots.

Note

Distribution packages of Supervisor can lag considerably behind theofficial Supervisor packages released to PyPI. For example, Ubuntu12.04 (released April 2012) offered a package based on Supervisor 3.0a8(released January 2010).

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Users reported that the distribution package of Supervisor for Ubuntu 16.04had different behavior than previous versions. On Ubuntu 10.04, 12.04, and14.04, installing the package will configure the system to startsupervisord when the system boots. On Ubuntu 16.04, this was not doneby the initial release of the package. The package was fixed later. SeeUbuntu Bug #1594740for more information.