Install Thumbor on Ubuntu 14.04

gistfile1.sh

# sudo su and run the following

sudo apt-get update && \
sudo apt-get -y upgrade && \

# install all dependencies
sudo apt-get -y install \
build-essential \
checkinstall \
gcc \
python \
python-dev \
libpng12-dev \
libtiff5-dev \
libpng-dev \
libjasper-dev \
libwebp-dev \
libcurl4-openssl-dev \
python-pgmagick \
libmagick++-dev \
graphicsmagick \
libopencv-dev \
python-pip && \

# install thumbor, will take a while
sudo pip install pycurl numpy thumbor && \

# set default thumbor config
thumbor-config > /etc/thumbor.conf && \

read -d "" ThumborUpstart <<"EOF"
description "Thumbor image manipulation service"
author "Jason Ormand <[email protected]>"

start on startup
stop on shutdown

exec thumbor -c /etc/thumbor.conf

post-start script
    PID=`status thumbor | egrep -oi '([0-9]+)$' | head -n1`
    echo $PID > /var/run/thumbor.pid
end script

post-stop script
    rm -f /var/run/thumbor.pid
end script
EOF

sudo echo "$ThumborUpstart" > /etc/init/thumbor.conf && \
sudo chmod 755 /etc/init/thumbor.conf && \
init-checkconf /etc/init/thumbor.conf && \
initctl reload-configuration && \
sudo service thumbor start && \


echo "Done!"

Thanks for the great script!

upstart is deprecated now so init-checkconf wont work unless you forcefully install upstart by:
sudo apt-get install upstart-sysv sudo update-initramfs -u sudo reboot

Check out https://askubuntu.com/questions/614970/vivid-failed-to-connect-to-upstart-connection-refused

Also, there is a dependency to libssl

sudo apt-get install libssl-dev