1 This page documents how to install ikiwiki if a prepackaged version is not
2 available for your distribution, and you are faced with [[downloading|download]]
3 the source and installing by hand. Ikiwiki should work on most unix-like
8 Ikiwiki is a perl program, and needs a recent version of perl such as
9 5.10. (5.8.0 has been reported not to work).
11 It's recommended you have a C compiler, as ikiwiki uses one to build
14 Ikiwiki requires the [[!cpan Text::Markdown]], [[!cpan URI]],
15 [[!cpan HTML::Parser]], [[!cpan HTML::Template]], and [[!cpan HTML::Scrubber]]
16 perl modules be installed. It can also use a lot of other perl modules, if
19 Various [[plugins]] use other perl modules and utilities; see their individual
20 documentation for details.
22 ### Installing dependencies by hand
24 If you want to install by hand from the tarball, you should make sure that
25 all the perl modules are installed. This is one way to install them, using
28 PERL5LIB=`pwd` PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT=1 perl -MCPAN -e 'CPAN::Shell->install("Bundle::IkiWiki")'
29 PERL5LIB=`pwd` PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT=1 perl -MCPAN -e 'CPAN::Shell->install("Bundle::IkiWiki::Extras")'
31 ## Installing ikiwiki by hand
33 Then to build and install ikiwiki:
35 perl Makefile.PL # PREFIX=/dir to install elsewhere
40 If you're using a shared hosting provider, of the sort where you don't have
41 root, you can still install ikiwiki. There are tutorials covering this for
44 * [[tips/NearlyFreeSpeech]]