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+No matter what I do, ikiwiki gives me a `Can't locate loadable object for module Locale::gettext in @INC` although I've installed (and reinstalled) the Locale module, and no luck. If I look at the directories in the INC path, I can see the file. The wiki won't compile in spite of this, and I've tried everything I can think of.. -- [[tychoish]]
+
+> Sounds like the `Locale::gettext` perl module is there, but your perl
+> installation is broken so that the accompnying so file is not there, or
+> doesn't work. On my system I have 
+> `/usr/lib/perl5/Locale/gettext.pm` and
+> `/usr/lib/perl5/auto/Locale/gettext.so` -- suspect your problem is with
+> the second one.
+> 
+> If you can't fix it, this problem could probably be worked around by
+> unsetting all environment variables when running ikiwiki (`LANG`,
+> `LC_ALL`, `LC_MESSAGES`). Then it won't try to load `Locale::gettext` at
+> all. --[[Joey]]
+
+---
+

 I am trying to install Ikiwiki version 2.1 from the source tarball.
 
 It has all gone fairly smoothly until I try and run 'make'.
 I am trying to install Ikiwiki version 2.1 from the source tarball.
 
 It has all gone fairly smoothly until I try and run 'make'.


@@ -94,7 +110,7 @@ This is perl, v5.8.8 built for i486-linux
 
 ## Installation in a non-root enviroment
 I had a pretty hellacious time installing Ikiwiki (largely due to problems
 
 ## Installation in a non-root enviroment
 I had a pretty hellacious time installing Ikiwiki (largely due to problems

-in Perl) and documented them in [[tips/SharedHosting]].  I'd like to get feedback on the doc and also know if I should file a few bugs to make the installation process a little friendlier to non-root folks.  Thanks for the great app!
+in Perl) and documented them in [[tips/Dreamhost]].  I'd like to get feedback on the doc and also know if I should file a few bugs to make the installation process a little friendlier to non-root folks.  Thanks for the great app!

 
 
 ## Typing error?
 
 
 ## Typing error?


@@ -140,3 +156,25 @@ good. Date::Parse was already installed. --[[vibrog]]
 
 > So, perl on your system is segfaulting when running ikiwiki. What version
 > of perl is this, and what version of what distribution? --[[Joey]]
 
 > So, perl on your system is segfaulting when running ikiwiki. What version
 > of perl is this, and what version of what distribution? --[[Joey]]

+
+    $ perl -V
+    Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 8 subversion 8) configuration:
+    osname=linux, osvers=2.6.22, archname=i586-linux-thread-multi
+    uname='linux ravel 2.6.22 #1 smp 20070921 22:29:00 utc i686 i686 i386 gnulinux '
+    config_args='-ds -e -Dprefix=/usr -Dvendorprefix=/usr -Dinstallusrbinperl -Dusethreads -Di_db -Di_dbm -Di_ndbm -Di_gdbm -Duseshrplib=true -Doptimize=-O2 -march=i586 -mtune=i686 -fmessage-length=0 -Wall -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fstack-protector -g -Wall -pipe'
+    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
+    usethreads=define use5005threads=undef useithreads=define usemultiplicity=define
+    useperlio=define d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef
+    use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef
+    usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef
+
+Not sure how to provide proper version information for you.--[[vibrog]]
+
+---
+
+I've tried a couple of times and my cpan has never recognised Bundle::IkiWiki. Is that section of the page still accurate? -- [[JonDowland]]
+
+> Are you running perl with the environemnt settings specified on the page?
+> Can you show how it fails to find the bundle? --[[Joey]]
+
+>> I was not. Next time I build I will have to try that (I'll need to tweak it as I already override PERL5LIB; also I need to specify http proxies). Thanks for your help! -- [[JonDowland]]