How To Install ikiwiki on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ikiwiki on Debian 12.
What is ikiwiki
ikiwiki is:
Ikiwiki converts a directory full of wiki pages into HTML pages suitable for publishing on a website. Unlike many wikis, ikiwiki does not have its own ad-hoc means of storing page history, and instead uses a revision control system such as Subversion or Git.
Ikiwiki implements all of the other standard features of a wiki, including web-based page editing, user registration and logins, a RecentChanges page, BackLinks, search, Discussion pages, tags, smart merging and conflict resolution, and page locking.
Ikiwiki also supports generating news feeds (RSS and Atom) and blogging. Ikiwiki provides a plugin system which allows many other features to be added. Some of the plugins have additional dependencies, found among the Recommends and Suggests of this package.
There are three methods to install ikiwiki on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install ikiwiki Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install ikiwiki using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install ikiwiki
Install ikiwiki Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install ikiwiki using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install ikiwiki
Install ikiwiki Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install ikiwiki using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install ikiwiki
How To Uninstall ikiwiki on Debian 12
To uninstall only the ikiwiki package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove ikiwiki
Uninstall ikiwiki And Its Dependencies
To uninstall ikiwiki and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove ikiwiki
Remove ikiwiki Configurations and Data
To remove ikiwiki configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge ikiwiki
Remove ikiwiki configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove ikiwiki configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ikiwiki
Dependencies
ikiwiki have the following dependencies:
- libhtml-parser-perl
- libhtml-scrubber-perl
- libhtml-template-perl
- libjson-perl
- libmarkdown2
- libtext-markdown-discount-perl
- liburi-perl
- libyaml-libyaml-perl
- perl
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ikiwiki package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.