Reddit Open Source - Critical Ubuntu 14 upgrades

## Upgrading Python and Curl

Goal: Update server components so "Suggest Title" works on all sites and can handle modern ssl

### 0. Update OS

    $ sudo apt-get update
    $ sudo apt-get upgrade

### 1. Upgrade curl

    replace version with latest stable from https://curl.haxx.se/download.html:
    $ sudo apt-get build-dep curl
    $ wget http://curl.haxx.se/download/curl-7.58.0.tar.bz2
    $ tar -xvjf curl-7.58.0.tar.bz2
    $ cd curl-7.58.0
    $ ./configure --prefix=/usr
    $ make
    $ sudo make install
    $ sudo ldconfig
    $ curl --version


### 2. Upgrade Python from 2.7.6 to 2.7.14

Follow intructions here:

  * https://askubuntu.com/a/725173


### 3. Rebuild reddit from source

    $ sudo reddit-stop
    $ sudo-reddit-flush
    $ sudo apt-get install libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev python-dev
    $ cd reddit/r2
    $ python setup.py build
    $ sudo python setup.py develop
    $ make clean
    $ make