[cloudstack-documentation] branch 4.11 updated: Update requirements for Ubuntu 18.04 (#22)

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     new 6307766  Update requirements for Ubuntu 18.04 (#22)
6307766 is described below

commit 6307766484878f571a91234885fc2cf1afeb5e21
Author: Andrija Panic <an...@users.noreply.github.com>
AuthorDate: Fri Jan 25 17:55:59 2019 +0100

    Update requirements for Ubuntu 18.04 (#22)
    
    Updated guide to support Ubuntu 18.04, since python3 is default, and also default java version is 10
---
 source/installguide/building_from_source.rst | 22 +++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/source/installguide/building_from_source.rst b/source/installguide/building_from_source.rst
index 508899d..74967ec 100644
--- a/source/installguide/building_from_source.rst
+++ b/source/installguide/building_from_source.rst
@@ -180,9 +180,14 @@ Install Python MySQL connector using the official MySQL packages repository.
 MySQL connector APT repository
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
+.. note::
+
+   Procedure below should work for Ubuntu 14.04 and 16.04.
+   For Ubuntu 18.04, please read later below.
+
 Install the following package provided by MySQL to enable official repositories:
 
-.. note:
+.. note::
 
    If the download fails check the current version number. The version available may
    have been updated.
@@ -199,6 +204,16 @@ Make sure to activate the repository for MySQL connectors.
    sudo apt-get update
    sudo apt-get install mysql-connector-python   
 
+.. note::
+   Below is given a bit different procedure if you are compiling on Ubuntu 18.04
+
+Due to default python version changes (and some others) in Ubuntu 18.04 version, we will need to install python 2.7, python-mysql.connector from Universe repo (instead from official MySQL repo) and later make sure we are using Java 8, since Java 10 comes as default
+
+.. parsed-literal::
+
+   apt-add-repository universe
+   apt-get install python-mysql.connector python-setuptools dh-systemd
+   (installs python 2.7 with needed dependencies)
 
 MySQL connector RPM repository
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
@@ -239,6 +254,11 @@ several other dependencies. Note that we recommend using Maven 3.
    $ sudo apt-get install python-software-properties
    $ sudo apt-get update
    $ sudo apt-get install debhelper openjdk-8-jdk libws-commons-util-java genisoimage libcommons-codec-java libcommons-httpclient-java liblog4j1.2-java maven
+   
+.. note::
+
+If on Ubuntu 18.04, in above command, please replace "python-software-properties" with "software-properties-common"
+If on Ubuntu 18.04, above command will install both Java 10 and Java 8, so make sure to switch to Java8 with "update-alternatives --config java" - otherwise you will get errors during dependency check and code compiling.
 
 While we have defined, and you have presumably already installed the
 bootstrap prerequisites, there are a number of build time prerequisites