Glen Berseth

I am an assistant professor at the University de Montreal and Mila. My research explores how to use deep learning and reinforcement learning to develop generalist robots.

Install Twiki on Ubuntu 12.04



This is short guide on how to install Twiki ~5.13 on Ubuntu 12.04. This guide has a fix or two that was not present in any other guide I found.

  1. Install all of the relevant dependencies.

    sudo apt-get install apache2 libgdal-perl libcgi-session-perl libhtml-tree-perl liberror-perl libfreezethaw-perl libgd2-xpm rcs libapache2-mod-perl2-doc libapache2-mod-perl2 libapache2-mod-php5 latex2html
  2.  Download Twiki

    If installing in the default directory for Apache (/var/www) place the downloaded zip/tar.gz file in /var/www (http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Codev/DownloadTWiki).
  3. Install Twiki

    cp /var/www/twiki/bin/LocalLib.cfg.txt /srv/www/ducklington.org/twiki/bin/LocalLib.cfg
    chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/twiki
  4. Configure Twiki
    Go to this link and have the page generate the configuration needed for your apache and perl configuration.
    http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/TWiki/ApacheConfigGenerator

    save the generated configuration to /etc/apache2/conf.d/twiki.conf
  5. Restart Apache2
    sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 reload
  6. Allow configuration file to know where the path to the configuration should be put.

    Edit /var/www/twiki/bin/LocalLib.cfg:
    \(twikiLibPath = "/var/www/twiki/lib";</code></div></li><li>Run Twiki config.<br />Configure your twiki: go to <b>http://localhost/twiki/bin/configure</b>,  setup admin password and paths.</li><li><br /><br />Edit /var/www/twiki/bin/LocalLib.cfg:<div class="container"><div class="line number1 index0 alt2"><code class="plain plain">\)twikiLibPath = "/var/www/twiki/lib";