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.p...@gmail.com> wrote:

> From https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Running_MediaWiki_on_Ubuntu
>
> "*Warning:* MediaWiki can also be installed using aptitude. The Ubuntu
> MediaWiki package is unsupported and usually outdated. We do not recommend
> you use it."
>
> I suppose that could refer only to aptitude and not Ubuntu support as a
> whole.
>
> Pine
>
>
> On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 1:04 PM, Michał Łazowik <mlazo...@me.com> wrote:
>
> > Hey,
> >
> > Wiadomość napisana przez Pine W <wiki.p...@gmail.com> w dniu 20 lip
> 2014,
> > o godz. 21:55:
> >
> > > I have experience with Ubuntu but MediaWiki says that Ubuntu is
> > > unsupported.
> >
> > Where, when, why what? I mean, from where do you have that info?
> >
> > > Which Linux distro would people recommend, and which distro of
> > > Linux does WMF use for MediaWiki?
> >
> > It's quite amusing in the view of what you said:
> > it's… Ubuntu :p [0]
> >
> > And basically anything that can run some web server (e.g. apache, nginx)
> > with php support should work. I think it would be hard to find a distro
> > that
> > wouldn't work.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Michał
> >
> > [0] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_servers#Software
> >
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