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On Oct 26, 2004, at 1:43 PM, Rich Points wrote:
> I've been trying to install MediaWiki on a Sun Solaris machine for
> about two months now. I've consulted with three programmers and
> written to several lists and no one can figure it out. Has anyone out
> there installed MediaWiki on this type of machine?

I did test MediaWiki 1.2 briefly on a Solaris 9/x86 box. I never got
the TeX plugin working, but other than that it seemed fine. Can you be
a bit more specific on what you've tried so far, and what the problem
seems to be?

Briefly, you need:
* Apache
* PHP
* MySQL
... for a basic install that should be it.

I think Sun ships an Apache package, if not you can get it from
http://sunfreeware.com/

I'm not aware of a PHP package, but you can install it from source
easily enough: http://www.php.net/ (If you don't have a C compiler
installed, you can get GCC from sunfreeware.com.) I would recommend PHP
4.3.9 rather than 5.0.2 as we don't yet bundle the updated PHPTAL
template library needed to make the default page layout work on PHP5.

MySQL 3.x packages are available on sunfreeware.com. MySQL 4.0 binaries
for Solaris are available direct from MySQL at
http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/4.0.html

I would recommend MySQL 4.0; 4.1 and higher have various oddities that
may cause problems.

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

Assuming that you can get Apache, PHP and MySQL to run, there should
be no reason why you can't get it to run. You may be missing advanced
features like the TeX support and the ImageMagick support, but once
you've got AMP configured, you should be good to go.

Wiley have a book that is pretty newbie-proof on how to configure AMP
on UNIX-like systems. Solaris should be much the same as Linux or BSD
for that.

Cian


On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 14:43:22 -0600, Rich Points <rich@richpoints.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I've been trying to install MediaWiki on a Sun Solaris machine for about two months now. I've consulted with three programmers and written to several lists and no one can figure it out. Has anyone out there installed MediaWiki on this type of machine?
>
> My research and experience has shown that MediaWiki is one of the best Wiki's around and I would really like to use it. Is this possible or am I SOL? If I can't use it what would be a second best wiki?
>
> Thanks
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> Rich Points
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Quoting Cian Duffy, from the post of Tue, 26 Oct:
> Assuming that you can get Apache, PHP and MySQL to run, there should
> be no reason why you can't get it to run. You may be missing advanced
> features like the TeX support and the ImageMagick support, but once
> you've got AMP configured, you should be good to go.

what am I missing? can't one compile TeX and IM from source?

--
Every now and then, you get what you don't pay for
Ira Abramov
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> what am I missing? can't one compile TeX and IM from source?

I'd guess so - I presume they compile on Solaris. That said, even
though Windows has AMP the TeX stuff still has "problems" working.

Cian

On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 00:29:32 +0100, Cian Duffy <myob87@gmail.com> wrote:
> > what am I missing? can't one compile TeX and IM from source?
>
> I'd guess so - I presume they compile on Solaris. That said, even
> though Windows has AMP the TeX stuff still has "problems" working.

Of course, you could use the GD plugin, but there are problems with
that (as brion described earlier in this list).

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Err, disregard that.


On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 19:51:44 -0400, Jamie Bliss
<astronouth7303@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 00:29:32 +0100, Cian Duffy <myob87@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > what am I missing? can't one compile TeX and IM from source?
> >
> > I'd guess so - I presume they compile on Solaris. That said, even
> > though Windows has AMP the TeX stuff still has "problems" working.
>
> Of course, you could use the GD plugin, but there are problems with
> that (as brion described earlier in this list).
>
> -- Jamie
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> Thank you to JosephM for inviting me to Gmail!
>


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