Add build for Ubuntu 18.04 in package repository

[travellingprog]

It seems that currently the stance is that Ubuntu 18.04 is not officially supported. However, mssql-cli does seem to work for Ubuntu 18.04 and over a year has passed since 18.04 was released.

After taking a looking at this issue: https://github.com/dbcli/mssql-cli/issues/204, I ran sudo apt-get install libicu60.

I then installed mssql-cli using pip. Only issue I ran into is that I initially tried installing it using pip3, but then it would fail to run because it was still looking for modules with Python 2. My bad.

Anyways, I'm successfully able to run mssql-cli now. I think it's time for a build of Ubuntu 18.04 to be added to the apt package repository, and installation instructions should be provided in the documentation as well.

On a side note, there should be an example provided of connecting to a SQL Server with a custom port. Have mostly been using Postgres the past few years, didn't expect to have to specify that with mssql-cli -S "tcp:server_ip,port" (the tcp: prefix and using a comma instead of a colon were unexpected).

[giggio]

This is making us resort to manual installs. 18.04 is an LTS version that has been out for more than an year. Would some of the maintainers of this package please take a look at this?

[ellbosch]

It just so happens I was looking at this yesterday 🙂 will have an update soon!

[giggio]

I believe this can be closed, it works with 18.04 just fine today.