Thread:Project:Support desk/Mediawiki install/reply

How are you doing the install?

The recommended method is to use the tarball from releases.wikimedia.org, extract it and to go through installation - I usually do that with the webbrowser.

When you now try again, before you start, please make sure that the database, which you are using, is actually empty. Should there be parts of the previous attempts (like some tables with some columns), remove them. The presence of such tables while you in fact want to do a new installation might confuse MediaWiki.