WP 1.2 Packaged

[...] 5th, 2004 5:05 am
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If you’re a Debian user Kai is looking for testers for his Debian WordPress package.

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Damn your eyes, just after I had installed wp by hand
I’ll test it today (package much appreciated btw)

WordPress Debian Package Out Natalian » WP 1.2 Packaged beta version now, but great idea. I'm looking at WordPress for my next project....

Any instruction to install? I’ve try using dpkg -i wordpres…..deb and i got an error:
ERROR 1044 at line 1: Access denied for user: ‘debian-sys-maint@localhost’ to database ‘wordpress’
So i’m suppose to have “wordpress” db created huh…

Anyway to do step by step config? or is that basically the other way to install it?

fire59, you need to update your mysql package to the most recent unstable version. I will change the depends line of the package.

Pakage seems to require the MySQL version from unstable.

dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of wordpress:
wordpress depends on mysql-server (>= 4.0.20–8); however:
Version of mysql-server on system is 4.0.18–5.

But WP will work with version from testing (4.0.18–5), right?

OK. I apt-got mysql from unstable (along with dependencies) and then wordpress install went fine. Thanks for making this package!.

Some questions:

- Can’t you have the package automatically run the install.php
script in order to create the wordpress tables?

- Can’t you have the package automatically update the apache
config file so that Apache knows about the symlink to
/usr/share/wordpress?

- The wordpress database and tables are not deleted from the
MySQL after apt-get remove. Seems like they should be.

- apt-get remove leaves the /usr/share/wordpress/wp-config.php
file and everyhing in /etc/wordpress behind. Why?

um, er, I was thinking you already had the package in unstable.
But now I realize that package is maintained by somebody else…
Sorry. I’ll try installing from your .deb instead.

OK. Your package is definitely better than the current one that’s in unstable. (That one doesn’t do any MySQL setup at all, or even
automatically create a wp-config.php file. Might as well just install
from the WP tarball itself rather than using that package.)

But would definitely be better if you could have your package
automatically set up the tables and Apache config file. And also
if it did a clean remove of everything.

dpkg—install wordpress_1.2.0–1.1_all.deb
(Reading database… 168604 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace wordpress 1.2.0–1.1 (using wordpress_1.2.0–1.1_all.deb) ...Unpacking replacement wordpress…
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of wordpress:
wordpress depends on mysql-server (>= 4.0.20–8); however:
Version of mysql-server on system is 4.0.18–5.
dpkg: error processing wordpress (—install):
dependency problems – leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
wordpress

Hey, great work with the package, but how do i access this? Where do I get to view my blog that i just installed, forgive me if this sounds really naive!!

Thanks for the package. I’ve got it up and running and I’m just starting to customize things. I have a few comments about the package though. Many debian packages have pre-install scripts that ask the user for the database name, user, and password, then puts the values into the config file and creates the database with the correct values. It should then prompt the user to visit “http://www.example.com/blog/wp-admin/install.php”;. Also, the “wp-config.php” could be placed in ”/etc/” with a symlink to it from ”/usr/share/wordpress/wp-config.php”. In wp-config, ABSPATH should be redefined as
define(‘ABSPATH’, ’/usr/share/wordpress/’);

Keep up the good work!

Freinds,

If any one got it working on Debian, please post the path to run/install. I am facing with the problems which i blogged earlier.

Cheers,
Adarsh