How to install the latest Scrapyd package?

Question

I notice that the latest stable version of scrapy was released last week(2013-08-09). After updating scrapy to version 0.18, the previous installed scrapyd-0.17 was uninstalled by apt-get(Ubuntu 12.04) automatically. Is there a scrapyd-0.18? How to install it?

Answer 1

Scrapyd is now a separate project as of 0.18.

It looks like right now they only have it hooked up to aptitude:

aptitude install scrapyd-0.18

More here.

EDIT: well, I researched it myself:

ben@nixbox:~$ aptitude versions scrapyd
Package scrapyd-0.14:                   
p   0.14.4+1351083316                             <NULL>                    500 

Package scrapyd-0.15:
p   0.15.1-309-gc3e91ba+1350590037                <NULL>                    500 

Package scrapyd-0.16:
p   0.16.5+1375718980                             <NULL>                    500 

Package scrapyd-0.17:
p   0.17.1-22-gaa883be+1372791583                 <NULL>                    500 

Sigh. Their documentation strongly implies that you can find scrapyd-0.18 on aptitude, but as of this writing (8/11/2013) that is false. I'll leave this answer up in case it saves anyone some time.

Edit2: well then, their news page on the documentation says 0.18.0 (unreleased). Github repo seems to confirm that. So I'm afraid there's your answer for now.