Steve VanSlyck wrote:
Why don't the publishers of TeX just compile
first? Why do *I* always
have to do the compiling of these programs?!
uhh - I run Debian - it only took installing mediawiki1.7-math to get the extension and
all
the dependencies. And yes, they were installed from binary packages.
"apt-get install mediawiki1.7-math" does it..
I think from installing media-wiki, mysql and having math working and configured (it
requires teX) took almost 20 minutes. YMMV
I didn't need to compile anything - just a few configuration deals. I did spend a
little
time later writing a script to automatically backup the database.
If you needed to customize something it is only a couple of command lines to build it
anyway. My hunch is you are using the wrong OS for a server.
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