Ending a long ramble on plug-talk, I kvetched: --------------------------------------------------------- It would be great to work with collaborators who can help me upgrade that server to Debian Bookworm and the web pages to mediawiki. ---------------------------------------------------------
I got MATE Terminal and mediawiki working on the new Bookworm machine. 1) MATE Terminal spaced lines too far apart vertically. I've used 11 point Monospace Regular on Redhat derivatives for years, also on Debian Bullseye. The transition from Debian 11 Bullseye to Debian 12 Bookworm changed the line pitch for Monospace Regular from 17px to 22px, way too much whitespace for me, displaying too few lines of text on my ancient 1024x1280 pixel displays. The reason for the distro font change was that it allowed more room for non-Roman characters and other languages. The fix is changing to DejaVu Sans Mono Book 11; back to 17px line space, with characters that look the same as Monospace Regular. ---- 2) mediawiki install problems - that was caused by using a different database/install directory than standard. It works with /var/www/html/mediawiki, the html setup script failed for me (near the end of setup) when I tried using a different path to a different disk partition (mostly to simplify backups). Fortunately, I can achieve the same backup organization with symlinks. 2a) next step, wikifarm Keith L. -- Keith Lofstrom [email protected]
