[Mediawiki-l] Problem with the TeX installation on my webspace

[Karl Schmidt]

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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