Installing MindTouch DekiWiki on Ubuntu 8.04

I installed mine on a clean 8.04 VM image, so your environment may be slightly different, but going back to a vanilla install, this guide should be completely accurate. 

The first thing you will want to do is make sure that LAMP is installed on your machine and configured. You will also need to make sure you know the password to the 'root' user for MySQL. The next thing you need to do is:

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get upgrade

This will make sure your system is up2date with the existing software before you go ahead and update it further with Dekiwiki. Next you will want to run:

sudo apt-get install joe

As most of you know by know, joe is one of my favorite text editors on Linux, so the rest of the guide will use joe. Next run the following:

sudo apt-get joe /etc/apt/sources.list

and add in the following:

deb http://repo.mindtouch.com xUbuntu_8.04/

Once you save the file, run:

sudo apt-get update

Next run:

apt-get install html2ps poppler-utils html2text wv gs tidy links msttcorefonts cabextract

You want to respond 'YES' to everything that you get prompted for. Next you will want to run:

sudo wget http://www.princexml.com/download/prince_6.0r6-1_i386.deb

sudo dpkg -i prince_6.0r6-1_i386.deb

sudo apt-get install dekiwiki

and finally you will run:

a2ensite dekiwiki

a2dissite default

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 reload

Then once Apache reloads you can go to the URL:

http://<servername>:/config/index.php

and go through the form to enter in information such as the title of the dekiwiki instance, administrator username/password, and database connection information. Once that gets configured you should get to a success page where you will then run some commands to clean up your installer.

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