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describe solution for math mode problem under FC4
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MediaWiki is available as a part of Fedora Extras (4 or later). In order to install it, you should run
# yum install mediawiki
as root. After installation, open the file <code>/usr/share/doc/mediawiki-x.y.z/INSTALL.fedora</code> and follow the instructions there.
If you need support for mathematical formulas, you also need to install <code>mediawiki-math</code>:
# yum install mediawiki-math
On Fedora Core 4, installing version 1.5.8-1, additional steps are needed
to enable inline LaTeX translation. Some of these steps are described in
the following file:
/usr/share/doc/mediawiki-math-1.5.8/README
If LaTeX formulas are displayed without translation, you might need to uncomment the following line manually in LocalSettings.php, and possibly also restart your httpd server:
$wgUseTeX = true;
Here is a method to restart the httpd server under Fedora:
/etc/init.d/httpd restart - from root prompt (not recommended)
sudo /etc/init.d/httpd restart - from user prompt with sudo configured
After enabling $wgUseTeX, you might see an error message such as this:
<!-- an effort to make this visually distinct from a *real* error -->
*<p class='error'><small>''Failed to parse (Can't write to or create math output directory): \mbox{abc}''</small></p>
In MediaWiki file Math.php one finds this source code line:
global $wgMathDirectory, $wgTmpDirectory, $wgInputEncoding;
In my default LocalSettings.php I found these lines:
$IP = "/var/www/mediawiki";
$wgUploadDirectory = "$IP/images";
# ...
$wgMathDirectory = "{$wgUploadDirectory}/math";
$wgTmpDirectory = "{$wgUploadDirectory}/tmp";
Which suggested this fix:
cd /var/www/mediawiki/images
sudo mkdir math
sudo mkdir tmp
sudo chown apache math tmp
sudo chmod 775 math tmp
And then there was math.
For Fedora-specific bug reports, use http://bugzilla.redhat.com/ with the product field set to "Fedora Extras" and the component field to "mediawiki".
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MediaWiki is available as a part of Fedora Extras (4 or later). In order to install it, you should run
# yum install mediawiki
as root. After installation, open the file <code>/usr/share/doc/mediawiki-x.y.z/INSTALL.fedora</code> and follow the instructions there.
If you need support for mathematical formulas, you also need to install <code>mediawiki-math</code>:
# yum install mediawiki-math
On Fedora Core 4, installing version 1.5.8-1, additional steps are needed
to enable inline LaTeX translation. Some of these steps are described in
the following file:
/usr/share/doc/mediawiki-math-1.5.8/README
If LaTeX formulas are displayed without translation, you might need to uncomment the following line manually in LocalSettings.php, and possibly also restart your httpd server:
$wgUseTeX = true;
Here is a method to restart the httpd server under Fedora:
/etc/init.d/httpd restart - from root prompt (not recommended)
sudo /etc/init.d/httpd restart - from user prompt with sudo configured
After enabling $wgUseTeX, you might see an error message such as this:
<!-- an effort to make this visually distinct from a *real* error -->
*<p class='error'><small>''Failed to parse (Can't write to or create math output directory): \mbox{abc}''</small></p>
In MediaWiki file Math.php one finds this source code line:
global $wgMathDirectory, $wgTmpDirectory, $wgInputEncoding;
In my default LocalSettings.php I found these lines:
$IP = "/var/www/mediawiki";
$wgUploadDirectory = "$IP/images";
# ...
$wgMathDirectory = "{$wgUploadDirectory}/math";
$wgTmpDirectory = "{$wgUploadDirectory}/tmp";
Which suggested this fix:
cd /var/www/mediawiki/images
sudo mkdir math
sudo mkdir tmp
sudo chown apache math tmp
sudo chmod 775 math tmp
And then there was math.
For Fedora-specific bug reports, use http://bugzilla.redhat.com/ with the product field set to "Fedora Extras" and the component field to "mediawiki".
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