Please note that the .deb packages provided here are fully compatible for Debian and Ubuntu, and the instructions are the same
even if the source list will say debian.
Existing packages for older Debian and Ubuntu releases are still provided at https://packages.amusewiki.org, but support for them has stopped with Amusewiki release 2.611 (December 2025). You can still run Amusewiki on such systems using the manual installation.
Supported database are mysql/mariadb, postgresql and sqlite3.
Please install postgresql or
mariadb-server before starting the installation. You will
be prompted to choose which one to use, but use postgresql if you can.
Amusewiki uses nginx as frontend server, so if you have Apache running, you need to change your setup (and free the HTTP and HTTPS ports) before starting the installation. See for example this article for a combined setup Apache/Nginx.
# wget https://deb.amusewiki.org/amusewiki-archive-keyring-trixie_1.0.0_all.deb # dpkg -i amusewiki-archive-keyring-trixie_1.0.0_all.debFor Bookworm:
# wget https://deb.amusewiki.org/amusewiki-archive-keyring-bookworm_1.0.0_all.deb # dpkg -i amusewiki-archive-keyring-bookworm_1.0.0_all.debThen run:
# apt-get update # apt-get install --no-install-recommends amusewiki
The output is going to prompt you to change the nginx configuration and give you the credentials for the login and a hostname to use.
The virtual host used by nginx is roughly a blind guess, so probably
you will need to put the ip/hostname association in the
/etc/hosts file on the client machine (i.e.
yours, not the server) to access the server for the initial
configuration.
This is the point where people get stuck. Amusewiki is multisite,
so it is not going to respond unless you request the correct hostname.
The initial configuration assigned a guessed hostname (say,
amusewiki.yournetwork.org) and you need to use that to
access the dashboard, hence the /etc/hosts trick. Once
you reach the dashboard you can update the server name to the correct one.
The initial site with documentation is created to give you a way to
reach the admin panel, where you should create a brand new site from
/admin/sites and possibly make inactive the default
one.
The installation procedure will send a mail to
root@localhost with the credentials to login and the
nginx configuration instructions. If for some reason you didn't get
it, you can look at /var/log/amusewiki/installation.log
(since version 2.310).
amusewiki 2.613-1
amusewiki-archive-keyring-trixie 1.0.0
amusewiki-texlive 20260407-1
fonts-antykwa-poltawskiego 101-2
fonts-antykwa-torunska 2.08-2
fonts-fandol 0.03-2
fonts-nowacki 0.995-2
fonts-sourcecodepro 0.00201710+amw2
fonts-source-han-sans-ja 2.004R+amw3
fonts-source-han-sans-ko 2.004R+amw3
fonts-source-han-sans-sc 2.004R+amw3
fonts-source-han-serif-ja 2.000R+amw3
fonts-source-han-serif-ko 2.000R+amw3
fonts-source-han-serif-sc 2.000R+amw3
fonts-sourcesanspro 0.00201710+amw2
fonts-sourceserifpro 0.00201710+amw2
libbytes-random-secure-tiny-perl 1.011-1
libcrypt-perl-perl 0.38
libcrypt-xkcdpassword-perl 0.009-3
libdbix-class-inflatecolumn-authen-passphrase-perl 0.03-2
libdbix-class-passphrasecolumn-perl 0.05-2
libebook-epub-lite-perl 0.71-3
libemail-mime-kit-renderer-tt-perl 1.003-1
libhttp-tiny-ua-perl 0.006-2
liblog-dispatch-file-stamped-perl 0.21-1
libmath-provableprime-perl 0.51-1
libnet-acme2-perl 0.35-1
libpdf-cropmarks-perl 0.11-2
libpdf-imposition-perl 0.26-2
libplack-middleware-etag-perl 0.05-3
libsuperclass-perl 0.003-2
libtext-amuse-compile-perl 1.91-3
libtext-amuse-perl 1.83-2
libtext-amuse-preprocessor-perl 0.67-2
libxml-opds-perl 0.06-2
libx-tiny-perl 0.22-1
amusewiki 2.613-1
amusewiki-archive-keyring-bookworm 1.0.0
amusewiki-texlive 20260407-1
fonts-antykwa-poltawskiego 101-2
fonts-antykwa-torunska 2.08-2
fonts-fandol 0.03-2
fonts-nowacki 0.995-2
fonts-sourcecodepro 0.00201710+amw2
fonts-source-han-sans-ja 2.004R+amw3
fonts-source-han-sans-ko 2.004R+amw3
fonts-source-han-sans-sc 2.004R+amw3
fonts-source-han-serif-ja 2.000R+amw3
fonts-source-han-serif-ko 2.000R+amw3
fonts-source-han-serif-sc 2.000R+amw3
fonts-sourcesanspro 0.00201710+amw2
fonts-sourceserifpro 0.00201710+amw2
libbytes-random-secure-tiny-perl 1.011-1
libcrypt-perl-perl 0.38
libcrypt-xkcdpassword-perl 0.009-3
libdbix-class-inflatecolumn-authen-passphrase-perl 0.03-2
libdbix-class-passphrasecolumn-perl 0.05-2
libebook-epub-lite-perl 0.71-3
libemail-mime-kit-renderer-tt-perl 1.003-1
libhttp-tiny-ua-perl 0.006-2
liblog-dispatch-file-stamped-perl 0.21-1
libmath-provableprime-perl 0.51-1
libnet-acme2-perl 0.35-1
libpdf-cropmarks-perl 0.11-2
libpdf-imposition-perl 0.26-2
libplack-middleware-etag-perl 0.05-3
libsuperclass-perl 0.003-2
libtext-amuse-compile-perl 1.91-3
libtext-amuse-perl 1.83-2
libtext-amuse-preprocessor-perl 0.67-2
libxml-opds-perl 0.06-2
libx-tiny-perl 0.22-1
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