[Mediawiki-l] Adding Extensions [Debian]

[Raymond Wan]

Hi all,

I'm trying to install the source extension GeSHi extension (as suggested 
by in a previous discussion) and this is the first time for me for 
installing extensions.  I've found out that things seem to be a bit 
different for Debian and I haven't turned up any information yet through 
Google.

The installation instructions were here:

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi

and for example, I installed the php-geshi Debian package via apt-get, 
and everything seems installed ok...but there is no file or directory 
that resembles "SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi".  There also doesn't seem to be 
an "svn" program.  However, there is a geshi.php and adding a 
"require_once ('path/to/geshi.php');" to LocalSettings.php doesn't seem 
to be enough...or at least, that didn't work.

In /etc/mediawiki-extensions/extensions-available, I have geshi.php.  I 
added a symlink from /etc/media-extensions/extensions-enabled to it -- 
that doesn't seem to help...I'm still missing something.

Anyone have any ideas or know of the standard procedure of installing 
extensions for MediaWiki.  I looked at the top of geshi.php and noticed 
this:

<?php
# Debian version of geshi syntax highlighting.
# You need the php-geshi package to make use of it...

makes me think that there is something Debian-specific to the 
installation process...

Thank you!

Ray