+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'.
home$ perl -v
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
+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?
+
+[..] Mail::Sendmail, TimeDate, RPC::XML, [..]: should be DateTime? --[[vibrog]]
+
+> No, TimeDate and DateTime are two different CPAN modules. Ikiwiki uses
+> TimeDate. --[[Joey]]
+
+ah, i still don't fully get it, though (the following is slightly shortened):
+
+ $ perl -MCPAN -e shell
+ cpan> install DateTime
+ DateTime is up to date.
+ cpan> install TimeDate
+ Warning: Cannot install TimeDate, don't know what it is.
+ Try the command
+ i /TimeDate/
+ to find objects with matching identifiers.
+
+I'm trying to build IkiWiki on a fresh OpenSuse 10.3 box. I start out with
+
+ $ perl -MCPAN -e 'install Text::Markdown URI HTML::Parser HTML::Template HTML::Scrubber'
+ $ git clone git://git.ikiwiki.info/ ikiwiki && cd ikiwiki
+ $ perl Makefile.PL && make
+
+Are there other prerequisites?
+I also installed all optional Perl modules, except TimeDate.
+
+> TimeDate is also, confusingly, known as Date::Parse. Perhaps CPAN would
+> do better with that name. --[[Joey]]
+
+good. Date::Parse was already installed. --[[vibrog]]
+
+`make` exits with `make: *** [extra_build] Aborted`, `make test` complains `cannot stat 'ikiwiki.man'` --[[vibrog]]
+
+> If you show me the actual error message, and not just the last line make
+> outputs, I might be able to help. --[[Joey]]
+
+ ..
+ rendering todo/calendar_--_archive_browsing_via_a_calendar_frontend.mdwn
+ make: *** [extra_build] Segmentation fault
+
+> 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]]