After languishing in old version hell on some of my tools for too long, I'm moving some of my process pieces off of an older Ubuntu install onto a more recent version (16 -> 18). Motivation for this is partly because so many things are hard to do -- Python 2 is still the main version on the older Ubuntu, and the 3.x is ancient and breaks fairly easily. Moving to 18 has a much more recent Python3, which allowed me to fiddle with some static site generators through the Jamstack approach. When I tried thus earlier with the 16 install, all kinds of weird erors on two different generators. While the process wasn't without any trouble on 18, things were eventually working. My initial problem with 18 was lack of Python PIP support, which I at first tried to resolve with "apt-get install python3-pip". Thankfully the 200+MB install failed and I was forced to look into things a bit. I discovered I could use a Python virtual envirnment, so I tried that which also failed. The failures were due to network misconfig, but the virtual env was kilobytes so once I got the network fixed I installed that. I used a common virt env for both jamstack pieces, and they installed like champs with no fuss. I set up a couple of demo sites, but now I need to see what each of them can do. But that left me with another issue -- version control. If I'm going to automate and get into config and script bits, then they need to live somewhere so the config files themselves don't become precious. We need a way to make possibly breaking changes without fear of losing stuff, and so enter stage left version control. I have been using SVN for some time, but its getting a bit long in the tooth and Git is all the new rage. So, we have to set up a local server, with the intention of linking in a remote store like Github -- but one step at a time. I followed the instructions at the Git site to get a small demo repo set up, so that is cool. I have a DNS issue I have to work out, but once that is done I have a spot to get stuff into. The only thing I need in addition is to get the version contol area backed up -- so adding it to my glacier process and then pulling a backup out and doing a restore to verify the process.