I too was recently struggling with Scribuntu on a non-WMF site. We have an old version of the GNU C library and now need to figure out how to upgrade it and otherwise get the environment ready. I'm sure Scribuntu is a wonderful tool whose time has come; I just hope we can get the documentation to the point that it's easier for people to figure out exactly how to install and configure it in the various environments they will encounter. Of course, there is always the option of not using Scribuntu, and instead using an older version of the templates. Given the complexities of template dependencies, it could be a bit tricky. Maybe there should be a way to export not the latest version of the various templates, but the version that existed as of a certain date. E.g., get the Infobox, Infobox person, etc. templates as they existed a few years ago. That could be a reasonably good stopgap solution while we wait for more people to get on board the Scribuntu train. (Filed as bug 56077; https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56077) In the long run, people will have to adopt Scribuntu, because they'll more and more often need the latest template functionality when they import pages from Wikipedia.