Thanks for this. I'm definitely 👍 to supporting the latest ubuntu LTS.

Linking to #950, I definitely want to ship with the latest LTS.

I can take this one if y'all want.

I guess a larger question here as I'm working on it, is do y'all just want to move to 18.04 or support 16.04 and 18.04 at the same time? If it is the latter things are gonna get really complicated. It's definitely doable, but will be awful to support and maintain. Maybe just move to 18.04?

We need to update the imagemagick ppa to 18.04. Bit of irc discussion here. Happy to do this work as well.

Moving up to 18.04 was something I wanted to do pre-release but there just wasn't enough time. I'd prefer to just move to 18.04, but Im brutal and want to maintain as little as possible.

I'd say move, this is a demo/development box.

If you are installing this on your server you can setup whatever OS you want.

Running into the following issue on ubuntu 18:

failed: [other_stack] (item=[u'cmake', u'libpng16-dev', u'libtiff-dev', u'liblcms2-dev']) => {"ansible_loop_var": "item", "changed": false, "item": ["cmake", "libpng16-dev", "libtiff-dev", "liblcms2-dev"], "msg": "No package matching 'libpng16-dev' is available"}

@Natkeeran I think 'libpng16-dev' is now just 'libpng-dev'.

That's what I updated in my branch last week. Won't get back to working on it until Friday (July 4th) at the earliest.

The next place the build breaks down is what I mentioned above with the imagemagick ppa. I had planned on getting back to that on Friday, but if y'all need it sooner, feel free to assign it to somebody else.