Talk:Create or Update a Debian package

Heres another package to add, sudo apt-get install mediawiki-math. This is required for math markup in MediaWiki. The executibles, latex, gs, dvips, imagemagick and texvc are required. --Sven 22:50, 25 June 2008 (NZST)

you mean there's already a mediawiki-math package or we should create one? (in which case it should be organicdesign-math or something cos you're supposed to use your own namespace to avoid conflicts) --nad 23:04, 25 June 2008 (NZST)

Yip theres already a math package, if you type texvc into the command prompt and it is not installed it will give you the command to install it, sudo apt-get install mediawiki-math --Sven 23:17, 25 June 2008 (NZST)

Maybe we should add that to debian post install then cos currently it uses

apt-get install dvipng tetex-extra cjk-latex ocaml

Probly best just to stick with that than use a meta-package I think... --nad 23:28, 25 June 2008 (NZST)

If you use apt-get install dvipng tetex-extra cjk-latex ocaml you probably still have to run make in the math directory to compile and create texvc in that directory. The command sudo apt-get install mediawiki-math just installs texvc in /usr/bin. Either way, we must make sure gs, dvips, latex, imagemagick and texvc are available and the directories 'tmp' and 'math' under 'images' exist and are writable. --Sven 10:42, 27 June 2008 (NZST)