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upgrading movabletype-opensource on debian/ubuntu

Since 2008, Debian has had a movabletype-opensource package available in the repository. That’s good news for people who like to make short work of system administration. Unfortunately, the package in the repository isn’t the very latest and greatest. Even so, there are big benefits to using aptitude to install movable type, the main one being that it automatically installs all the various dependencies and offloads your job (maintaining those packages) to someone else. Plus the file locations are well-thought-out. Rather than throwing everything right into the web root the package maintainer put the cgi files into a common cgi-bin folder, the shared files into /usr/shared, the perl modules into the shared perl library, and the configuration files into /etc. Continue reading →