see https://github.com/reddit/reddit/wiki/reddit-install-script-for-Ubuntu

install-reddit.sh

The install script has moved to the main reddit repository:

https://github.com/reddit/reddit/blob/master/install-reddit.sh

Aptitude is not installed by default. I just did a fresh install of 11.04. But, you can easily install it by running:
apt-get update
apt-get install aptitude

I'm attempting to install on 11.1 (I removed the bit in the .sh that checks for version 11.04) and the install bails when it gets to the PPA:

You are about to add the following PPA to your system:
reddit
Packages for reddit
More info: https://launchpad.net/~jason-alioth/+archive/reddit

(everything is going fine until... )

Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com oneiric-backports/multiverse TranslationIndex
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com oneiric-backports/restricted TranslationIndex
Err http://ppa.launchpad.net oneiric/main Sources
404 Not Found
Err http://ppa.launchpad.net oneiric/main i386 Packages
404 Not Found
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com oneiric-backports/universe TranslationIndex
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com oneiric/main Translation-en
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com oneiric/multiverse Translation-en
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com oneiric/restricted Translation-en
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com oneiric/universe Translation-en
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com oneiric-updates/main Translation-en
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com oneiric-updates/multiverse Translation-en
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com oneiric-updates/restricted Translation-en
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com oneiric-updates/universe Translation-en
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com oneiric-backports/main Translation-en
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com oneiric-backports/multiverse Translation-en
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com oneiric-backports/restricted Translation-en
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com oneiric-backports/universe Translation-en
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net oneiric/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net oneiric/main Translation-en

root@ubuntu:/home/andrew/Downloads/gist922144-db8e2286a66ef18459cc356869df6d17e7b8f66a#

Any ideas on what's causing the script to bail?

Yup, none of the packages in the PPA are compiled for Oneiric. There's a reason that version check is there :P

Silly Me.

After reinstalling the correct version of Ubuntu, I'm bailing on the same error as Cheapsteak:

ImportError: No module named lxml.sax
make: *** [r2/public/static/button.js] Error 1

I've manually installed lxml with "sudo apt-get install python-lxml" but the script still dies at this line.

I've tried to follow the steps on Lucid (10.04.3 LTS) but it fails on
$ make pyx
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "r2/lib/js.py", line 8, in
from r2.lib.i18n import get_available_languages
ImportError: No module named r2.lib.i18n
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "r2/lib/js.py", line 8, in
from r2.lib.i18n import get_available_languages
ImportError: No module named r2.lib.i18n
cython r2/models/_builder.pyx

Error converting Pyrex file to C:

...
def _tree_filter(self, x):
return tree_sort_fn(x) < self.after._id

def _viewable_message(self, m):
    if (c.user_is_admin
        or getattr(m, "author_id", 0) == c.user._id
                 ^

---

/home/reddit/reddit/r2/r2/models/_builder.pyx:282:22: Call with wrong number of arguments (expected 2, got 3)

You need a newer version of Cython.

Note: we don't support Lucid any more and there're parts of the code that will not work on Python 2.6.