Xenial support

util/install/sandbox.sh

@@ -11,8 +11,8 @@
 ##
 ## Sanity check
 ##
-if [[ `lsb_release -rs` != "12.04" ]]; then
-   echo "This script is only known to work on Ubuntu 12.04, exiting...";
+if [[ `lsb_release -rs` != "16.04" ]]; then
+   echo "This script is only known to work on Ubuntu 16.04, exiting...";
    exit;
 fi
 
@@ -31,18 +31,12 @@ sudo apt-get upgrade -y
 ##
 ## Install system pre-requisites
 ##
-sudo apt-get install -y build-essential software-properties-common curl git-core libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev python-pip libmysqlclient-dev python-apt python-dev libxmlsec1-dev libfreetype6-dev swig gcc-4.8 g++-4.8
+sudo apt-get install -y build-essential software-properties-common curl git-core libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev python-pip libmysqlclient-dev python-apt python-dev libxmlsec1-dev libfreetype6-dev swig gcc g++
 sudo pip install --upgrade pip==8.1.2
 sudo pip install --upgrade setuptools==24.0.3
 sudo -H pip install --upgrade virtualenv==15.0.2
 
 ##
-## Update alternatives so that gcc/g++ 4.8 is the default compiler
-##
-sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/gcc gcc /usr/bin/gcc-4.8 50
-sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/g++ g++ /usr/bin/g++-4.8 50
-
-##
 ## Overridable version variables in the playbooks. Each can be overridden
 ## individually, or with $OPENEDX_RELEASE.
 ##
@@ -78,6 +72,7 @@ cd /var/tmp
 git clone https://github.com/edx/configuration
 cd configuration
 git checkout $CONFIGURATION_VERSION
+git pull
 
 ##
 ## Install the ansible requirements