Installation using Debian/Ubuntu (.DEB) packages: getting confused

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Hi! I’ve just got a new server running Ubuntu 24.04. I will install XWiki on it. Furthermore, I installed several useful tools I like to have available in a new OS installation. No application server or relational database engine are installed by default.

Then, I reach the Installation using Debian/Ubuntu (.DEB) packages. It was updated yesterday! Cool! But I got confused again by the warning in the first section:

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Please, why I must mind about Debian decision about removing Tomcat 9 if I’m going to install my first and fresh XWiki instance?

I would move that warning lower in the page and promote the section Complete Installation just below sudo apt-get update code box in APT Configuration.

IMO, details about what repos offer must go after the Complete Installation section, with some comments/instructions about installing separate packages. Following my brief experience, it is by no means easy to understand how to deal with partial installations.

WDYT? Thanks!

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As indicated in the warning, it’s only if you are installing a pre 17 XWiki version, which means, until the end of the year, the XWiki LTS version (16.10.x), for example.

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Thanks. Yes, I got that. But I think that a user installing XWiki for the first time, or even if she/he installed XWiki a lot of times like me, what want firstly is to have a state-of-the-art installation. Perhaps later he/she would mind about releases.

On a fresh Ubuntu/Debian installation, you didn’t get any application server or relational database installed by default. All what I expect up there would be the OS release requirements of the newest XWiki release. Then, later, how to proceed, if supported, if I want to stick with a previous OS version.

Just me two cents! As always, thanks for your help!