+The best place to download a tarball of the latest release is from
+<http://packages.debian.org/unstable/source/ikiwiki>.
+
+Installation steps and requirements are listed on the [[install]] page.
+
+## packages
+
+To install with apt, if using Debian (since 4.0), or Ubuntu (since 6.10):
+[[!template id=note text="""
+Note that Debian 4.0 and especially Ubuntu 6.10 contain older versions of
+ikiwiki, there have been lots of enhancements and bug fixes since those
+versions.
+"""]]
+
+ apt-get install ikiwiki
+
+Or download the deb from <http://packages.debian.org/unstable/web/ikiwiki>.
+
+There is a backport of a recent version of ikiwiki for Debian 4.0 at
+<http://packages.debian.org/etch-backports/ikiwiki>.
+
+There is also an unofficial backport of ikiwiki for Ubuntu Hardy, provided by
+[[Paweł_Tęcza|users/ptecza]],
+at [http://gpa.net.icm.edu.pl/ubuntu/](http://gpa.net.icm.edu.pl/ubuntu/index-en.html).