help on installing moinmoin

[bonovoxpsu]

hello - first post here from a happy ubuntu user.

i'm wondering just how to get moinmoin working. i have apache, python, and moin all installed and really, i don't know where to go from here. the instructions on moin's site don't really seem too helpful.

i'm sorry for this vague post, but i'm not sure how to proceed. thoughts?

[Myles3]

Do you have to use moinmoin? If you don't consieder installing MediaWiki with PHP and MySQL. It is problely the best one out there.

[bonovoxpsu]

alright then - i'll give it a shot. any caveats with installation? or is it basically apt-get mediawiki and mysql?

[alastair]

Moin Moin is pretty easy to install - but it is not just a double-click on an icon and away you go. There's a doc in the package on how to do it (INSTALL.html) - and a python script automates most of it. It doesn't need anything else except a web server - this simplicity is attractive.

MediaWiki will also require some thought and reading. You will have to do some work - but it's a learning experience.

[goofrider]

hello - first post here from a happy ubuntu user.

i'm wondering just how to get moinmoin working. i have apache, python, and moin all installed and really, i don't know where to go from here. the instructions on moin's site don't really seem too helpful.

i'm sorry for this vague post, but i'm not sure how to proceed. thoughts?
Read the following instructinos:

http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/HelpOnInstalling/BasicInstallation
http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/HelpOnInstalling/ApacheOnLinux

If u get an error like "Invalid Python installation: cannot find /usr/lib/Python2.x/config/Makefile", that means u need to install the python-dev package (u can use apt-get or Synaptic to do that.

[bonovoxpsu]

i'm basically looking for my own personal notes/journal/information software package. a wiki seems to be the most flexible solution, but i could be wrong.

as of now, i'm just poking around - i may try and just get this moinmoin setup, because i've fought with it for a couple days now and i just want to win... :p

[Myles3]

If you going to be using it for only personal things and even softwear why don't you use a Blog. Wordpress or MovableType are good. But if you want anything more advanced you might want to try a CMS such as Drupal or PHP Nuke.

[goofrider]

i'm basically looking for my own personal notes/journal/information software package. a wiki seems to be the most flexible solution, but i could be wrong.

as of now, i'm just poking around - i may try and just get this moinmoin setup, because i've fought with it for a couple days now and i just want to win... :p

Have u tried TomBoy? It's a desktop note-taking software for Gnome that supports internal page links just like a wiki, except it lives on your desktop, and it's a GTK# app. :)

http://www.beatniksoftware.com/tomboy/

Now it'll be absolutely sweet if it supports some kind of export/sync to wiki.... :-D

[ihristov]

If you are looking for personal use forget the apt packages, try the DesktopEdition
http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/DesktopEdition

Easy as pie:

1. Download and unpack
2. start it
python main.py
3. fire a browser to
http://localhost:8080/

and start using it

[jfdill_2]

This thread is a bit old, but here's my 2c.

For small note taking, I recommend TiddlyWiki, it's a self-contained Javascript app, nothing to "install" besides a web browser :) It's nice because you can save it to a thumb drive or whatever and you don't need any supporting software, works the same on Linux or Windows. I often use this for customers to document network / e-mail settings, other things they need to know. The only thing is that as pages get larger, it can become slow.

http://www.tiddlywiki.com/

For more intensive note taking, I like DokuWiki, very easy to install, depends only on PHP, stores pages as files which makes it easy to sync to multiple locations. On my ToDo list is to see if I can store in SVN and get it to run off a thumb drive. It should be possible to run it with nanoweb for example.

http://wiki.splitbrain.org/wiki:dokuwiki

SnipSnap is another one that I have played with that is Java-based and comes bundled with Jetty, which also makes it easy to run off a thumb drive provided JVM is installed, works on Linux or Windows. What's nice is that it is sort of a blog / wiki hybrid. The downsides are that it seems not to be very actively developed, and if you want to put it on the web you are going to need hosting that supports Java, inexpensive vhost-based hosting might be the best bet in that case.

http://snipsnap.org/space/start

If you want to shop around, WikiMatrix has a very nice comparison engine and includes nearly all of the Wiki software that is out there. There are also discussion forums, and user comments and reviews.

http://www.wikimatrix.org/

[mudfly]

If you are looking for personal use forget the apt packages, try the DesktopEdition
http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/DesktopEdition

Easy as pie:

1. Download and unpack
2. start it
python main.py
3. fire a browser to
http://localhost:8080/

and start using it

Thank you for pointing out this project to me, sir! Too bad the last release is over a year old now. I hope they update the DE with 1.6 when its released. :KS

[dokudoug]

Bitnami's DokuWiki stack rocks! http://bitnami.org/search?q=dokuwiki Easy to install--only one commandline step and a few clicks--and you're there! Ooh, it took me right back to Mac OS 7.1.You know, this free software lark might really take off!

I tried moinmoin's desktop version first, downloaded from here: http://moinmo.in/DesktopEdition but both the .zip and .tbz archives presented for download failed to unpack and I just gave up, there and then. Good decision.

Let's face it, some people like a complicated install: e.g. http://www.linuxadmin.dk/blog/?cat=4 and some don't. Me, I just want to get on with my content, and dokuwiki on bitnami is lovely. Hats off! And thanks to jfdill_2 for pointing me to it.