Installing Deki Wiki package on RedHat EL 5 / Fedora 8 / CentOS 5

The purpose of this page is to install Deki Wiki on RedHat flavoured Linux distributions.
In order to resolve dependencies automatically, the best way to install the Deki Wiki RPM is to use YUM

Please report any issues regarding the installation to this forum. Your feedback will be greatly appreciated.

• Setting up MindTouch's YUM repository

 Create the file "/etc/yum.repos.d/mindtouch.repo" with the following content:

[home_mindtouch_mono]
name=mindtouch mono repo (RHEL_5)
type=rpm-md
baseurl=http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/mindtouch/RHEL_5
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/mindtouch/RHEL_5/repodata/repomd.xml.key
enabled=1   

• Installing recommended packages [optional]

These packages are not required but recommended for the best Deki Wiki experience !

  # yum install wv

Note: some of these packages will not be available on all distros, you may have to check the projects websites. 

• Install Prince XML [optional]

Prince XML is used by Deki for saving your pages as PDF. Follow these instructions to install Prince XML on your system.

• Installing Mono

Mono (>=1.2) is required to run Deki Wiki and may not be available from the standard repositories.

You can download Mono from :  http://www.mono-project.com/

RPM Packaged versions are available at :  http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Mono/

Example on RHEL 5 : 

Create the file "/etc/yum.repos.d/mono.repo" with the following content :  

[Mono]
name=Mono Stack (RHEL_5)
type=rpm-md
baseurl=http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Mono/RHEL_5/
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Mono/RHEL_5/repodata/repomd.xml.key
enabled=1

 Install Mono :

# yum install mono-complete 

• Installing Deki Wiki

Install Deki Wiki using the command :

# yum install dekiwiki

answer "yes" to all questions about downloads and GPG keys, or use the "-y" option.

• Configure and enable the Apache virtualhost

You now may want to check the Deki configuration file for Apache, adapt it to your needs and then enable it :

$ sudo mv /etc/httpd/conf.d/deki-apache.conf.disabled /etc/httpd/conf.d/deki-apache.conf 
$ sudo service httpd reload

Deki Wiki is now installed and you should be able to connect to "http://your_server/config/index.php" to complete the configuration.

• Appendix : Getting sources package

YUM does not support source RPM installation so let's download it first :

# wget http://repo.mindtouch.com/RHEL_5/src/dekiwiki-1.9.0.8743-3.1.src.rpm

Now you can install the package using the classic RPM command :

# rpm -ivh ./dekiwiki-1.9.0.8743-3.1.src.rpm

• Appendix : Upgrading MindTouch Deki

If you let the MindTouch repository in your Yum, the system might prompt you whenever a new release is available and ask you for an upgrade.

Package upgrades are supported from the 1.9.0 (Itasca) or later release. To upgrade manually to the latest release, type :

$ sudo yum install dekiwiki

Once the upgrade complete, you will have to :

- Check the new "/etc/httpd/conf.d/deki-apache.conf" configuration and enable it once validated :

$ sudo mv /etc/httpd/conf.d/deki-apache.conf.disabled /etc/httpd/conf.d/deki-apache.conf
$ sudo service httpd reload

- Restart the Deki service :

$ sudo /etc/init.d/dekiwiki restart

- Flush your web browser cache (recommended).