How To Install mediawiki on Debian 11

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install mediawiki on Debian 11.

What is mediawiki

mediawiki is:

MediaWiki is a wiki engine (a program for creating a collaboratively edited website). It is designed to handle heavy websites containing library-like document collections, and supports user uploads of images/sounds, multilingual content, TOC autogeneration, ISBN links, etc.

Moreover, it keeps track of changes, so users can receive notifications, view diffs and revert edits. This system has many other features and can easily be extended.

There are three methods to install mediawiki on Debian 11. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install mediawiki Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install mediawiki using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install mediawiki

Install mediawiki Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install mediawiki using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install mediawiki

Install mediawiki 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 mediawiki using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install mediawiki

How To Uninstall mediawiki on Debian 11

To uninstall only the mediawiki package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove mediawiki

Uninstall mediawiki And Its Dependencies

To uninstall mediawiki and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove mediawiki

Remove mediawiki Configurations and Data

To remove mediawiki configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge mediawiki

Remove mediawiki configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove mediawiki configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mediawiki

Dependencies

mediawiki have the following dependencies:

• apache2
• php

References

• mediawiki website
• mediawiki on packages.debian.org

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install mediawiki package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.