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.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 MediaWiki package is unsupported and usually outdated.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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikitech-l mailing list > > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
