I think that's referring to the package distributed by Ubuntu/Canonical, not support for running the app if you install it via some other method. -Chris On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 1:10 PM, Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> wrote:

Yes that's correct. The Ubuntu package isn't officially supported. This is more a historical thing than anything else, as a couple years back one of the packages (I think it was redhat's) decided that moving the skins directory (This was back before RL, so that included all the css and JS) to a non-web accessible directory was a good idea. And most of the other packages were horribly outdated, so all the distro packages got deemed "unsupported". Now a days the distro packages are a lot better, but still might be a little behind the time in terms of version. If you're installing MediaWiki, my recommendation would be to download the source from mediawiki.org, and only use your package manager to install dependencies like apache, mysql, etc. However, the distro packages are probably fine too. As for Solaris vs Ubuntu. I'd recommend linux if you have a choice (In particular mediawiki uses some GNU userland utilities if available that would definitely be in linux, such as bash, diff3, timeout. I have no idea if other unixes have all those installed by default). MediaWiki is probably the most well tested on Ubuntu of any OS (as that's what WMF uses), but really its pretty OS agnostic. --bawolff On 7/20/14, Christopher Wilson <gwsuperfan(a)gmail.com> wrote:

Wiadomość napisana przez Michał Łazowik <mlazowik(a)me.com> w dniu 20 lip 2014, o godz. 22:22: Forgot the link, sorry: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki-Vagrant

Yep. It says that the broken .deb package made by Debian guys is not supported by us developeers, not that MW doesn't support Ubuntu or vice versa. Just stick with tarballs or Git checkouts and you'll be fine. On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 1:10 PM, Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> wrote: -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]])

Thanks. Unfortunately I will not be attending Wikimania or the hackathon. I wish I was. I would like to go. Pine On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 2:24 PM, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:

Yes, please do not install MediaWiki via apt-get or aptitude. It will be old version with suboptimal settings. It is much better to install it manually. Speaking of Ubuntu, I think WMF is running a lot of Ubuntu / Debian systems. So, Ubuntu should be the best way of running MediaWiki. Dmitriy On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 10:55 AM, Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> wrote:

Max Semenik <maxsem.wiki(a)gmail.com> writes: This was done with Debian specifically in mind. These are bugs that should be fixed. Release management has worked closely with Debian and Fedora packagers to improve their packaging because, despite any on-wiki disclaimers, people will continue to use "apt-get" and "yum" to install MediaWiki. Mark. -- Mark A. Hershberger NicheWork LLC 717-271-1084

At previous job, I've installed and maintained a wiki farm with multiple sites, interwiki setup and caching while another emploee installed MediaWiki from repository via single command and told to former boss that my work is very simple. I hate anything web-related in packages because of that. On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 6:55 PM, Delirium <delirium(a)hackish.org> wrote: