Manual talk:Installing MediaWiki on Ubuntu 10.04

The Applications >> Ubuntu Software Centre (search) mediawiki didn't work for me on a new install (10.4, amd64)

I installed the Mediawiki package via System >> Administration >> Synaptic Package Manager >> (search) mediawiki >> Mark for installation >> Apply

During installation of the packages MySQL asks for you to create a password for the 'root' user (you will need this later so don't forget it!)

System >> Administration >> Services doesn't exist on this version of Ubuntu so I used the command line option to restart Apache.

After setting up mediawiki you get a message asking you to Move /var/lib/mediawiki/config/LocalSettings.php to /etc/mediawiki

If you want to do this using the GUI you need to open a terminal and type: gksudo nautlius

or via the command line:

sudo cp /var/lib/mediawiki/config/LocalSettings.php /etc/mediawiki

Everything else worked exactly as described in the manual.

Short URL's
On (K)ubuntu 10.04 short URL's refused to work util the following option was added to /etc/mediawiki/apache.conf: AcceptPathInfo On