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Trivial upgrades of TWiki and TWiki Plugins

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Summary: This page enables you to quickly and easily install a pre-configured TWiki 4.2 ’software appliance’ on Windows, by using the free VMware Player or VMware Server - like another computer running within your computer. This generally performs better than a normal WindowsInstallCookbook approach and is easier to install than IndigoPerlCookbook (takes just 5 minutes, a bit like installing a hard disk that has TWiki and Linux pre-installed). Although running TWiki on Linux on top of Windows may seem complicated, it’s actually much simpler than installing TWikiOnWindows - no TWiki or Linux knowledge is needed to get a working TWiki installation!

This uses TWiki VM 4.2.3 released on 12 September 2008. It is installed using SvenDowideit’s fosiki TWiki debian package repository to make upgrades, and installation of TWiki Plugins (with external dependencies) easy.

The Operating System Configuration

The OS running inside the VM is Linux Ubuntu JeOS, v8.4.1 (released April 2008). You can get further information on this Linux distribution at JeOS. For more discussion of TWiki on Ubuntu and on Linux generally, see TWikiOnUbuntu and TWikiOnLinux.

• IP: DHCP-enabled installation.
  • With VMware set to NAT, VMware’s DHCP server provides an IP address. Or you can use Bridged mode and get an IP from your broadband router or corporate DHCP server.
• Hostname: twiki-vm
• Domain: .lan
• Services: ssh, samba, http
• Perl: Perl 5.8.8
• Users:
  • User: login: twiki, password: twiki
  • use sudo bash and the twiki user’s password to get a root level access

  Configure and TWiki ‘Admin’ user:

  • User: admin, Password: TWikiAdminUser
• Locales:
  • All locales installed, default set to en_US
  • Change default locale used in shell by running dpkg-reconfigure locales as root

updating and installing Plugins

Because this Virtual machine uses debian packages to manage and install TWiki and Plugins, you should not use configure to install from twiki.org. Instead, use apt-get, debian/ubuntu’s package management too.

1. login as twiki/twiki
2. sudo apt-get update        (to update the local package repository)
3. apt-cache search twiki         (to list all available twiki packages)
4. sudo apt-get install twiki-widgetsskin         (to install one of those packages.

at any time, you can update twiki, its plugins and the operating system using

1. sudo apt-get update
2. sudo apt-get upgrade