For developers (or user) interested in using the latest development branch of Deki Wiki (1.8.2), follow these steps:
1) download the latest VM from SourceForge
2) unzip and launch
3) log into the shell and run the following commands
cd /opt/deki svn up svn switch https://dekiwiki.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/dekiwiki/deki-1.8.2 cd /var/www/deki-hayes svn switch https://dekiwiki.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/dekiwiki/deki-1.8.2/web cd .. chown -R www-data deki-hayes updateWiki.sh
For Non-VM installations follow these steps
1) backup your attachments and config files
mkdir ~/deki-backup cd /var/www/deki-hayes tar cvzpf ~/deki-backup/attachments.tar.gz attachments cp LocalSettings.php AdminSettings.php ~/deki-backup cp bin/mindtouch.host.sh ~/deki-backup
2) remove your existing wiki directory
cd ~ rm -rf /var/www/deki-hayes
3) checkout the branch
cd /var/www svn co https://dekiwiki.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/dekiwiki/deki-1.8.2/web deki-hayes
4) restore your attachments and config files
cd ~/deki-backup cp LocalSettings.php AdminSettings.php /var/www/deki-hayes cp mindtouch.host.sh /var/www/deki-hayes/bin tar xvzf attachments.tar.gz -C /var/www/deki-hayes chown -R www-data /var/www/deki-hayes
5) run the DB schema upgrade script
cd /var/www/deki-hayes/maintenance php update-db.php
6) restart dekihost
/etc/init.d/dekihost restart
Note: to use svn you must have subversion installed. On Debian/Ubuntu you can install subversion like this:
apt-get install subversion