Installing DokuWiki from packages vs. manually

Many operating systems (OSes) have package managers that offer a DokuWiki package.

The advantages of using such a package are:

But there are disadvantages as well:

So an admin needs to decide whether to use an OS package or a manual method for installing DokuWiki.

Using the package is generally easier and gets your DokuWiki up and running faster. But for best results it may be better to install DokuWiki manually.

Tip: Install DokuWiki using a package and note the OS-specific things this package does. Then apply that to your manual install. This wastes a bit of disk space by having an unused version of DokuWiki and potentially some unused dependencies installed. But in most cases that is negligible.