On Oct 26, 2004, at 1:43 PM, Rich Points wrote: 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)

Quoting Cian Duffy, from the post of Tue, 26 Oct: 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 http://ira.abramov.org/email/

On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 00:29:32 +0100, Cian Duffy <myob87(a)gmail.com> wrote: Of course, you could use the GD plugin, but there are problems with that (as brion described earlier in this list). -- Jamie ------------------------------------------------------------------- http://endeavour.zapto.org/astro73/ Thank you to JosephM for inviting me to Gmail!