Dumps/Software dependencies

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Software dependencies for running the dumps

(Incomplete list)

Note that on WMF production hosts, this is handled by a base install and by puppet.

The pile of python and C code used to manage these XML dumps needs the following:

python 3.5 or better
python3-yaml
php7 with bzip2 and gzip streams enabled
php7-mysql, php-xml, php-mbstring, any php extensions MediaWiki needs
functional base MediaWiki installation, including maintenance scripts
ActiveAbstract MW extension
Flow MW extension if you have Flow content in your wikis
mwbzutils (C utilities for manipulating bz2/gz-compressed MW xml files, in wikimedia repo)
mysqldump
curl (for api-based dumps jobs)
p7zip installed, 7za in path of user running the dumps
bzip2, lbzip2, gzip and supporting libraries