-The easiest way to install ikiwiki is using the Debian package, but you can
-also [[download]] the source and install it by hand. Ikiwiki should work on
-most unix-like systems.
+This page documents how to install ikiwiki if a prepackaged version is not
+available for your distribution, and you are faced with [[downloading|download]]
+the source and installing by hand. Ikiwiki should work on most unix-like
+systems.
+
+## Dependencies
Ikiwiki is a perl program, and needs a recent version of perl such as
5.10. (5.8.0 has been reported not to work).
-Ikiwiki requires the [[cpan Text::Markdown]], [[cpan URI]],
-[[cpan HTML::Parser]], [[cpan HTML::Template]], and [[cpan HTML::Scrubber]]
-perl modules be installed. It can also use a lot of other perl modules, if
-they are available.
-
It's recommended you have a C compiler, as ikiwiki uses one to build
wrappers.
-Various [[plugins]] use other libraries and utlities; see their individual
+Ikiwiki requires the [[!cpan Text::Markdown]], [[!cpan URI]],
+[[!cpan HTML::Parser]], [[!cpan HTML::Template]], and [[!cpan HTML::Scrubber]]
+perl modules be installed. It can also use a lot of other perl modules, if
+they are available.
+
+Various [[plugins]] use other perl modules and utilities; see their individual
documentation for details.
-The Debian packages depend on and recommend an appropriate set of packages.
+### Installing dependencies with yum
-While Fedora 7 doesn't have an ikiwiki package, you can install needed
-perl modules using this command:
+Here's an example of how to install ikiwiki's dependencies using yum
+on Fedora 7:
yum install perl-Text-Markdown perl-Mail-Sendmail perl-HTML-Scrubber \
perl-XML-Simple perl-TimeDate perl-HTML-Template perl-CGI-FormBuilder \
- perl-CGI-Session perl-File-MimeInfo perl-gettext
+ perl-CGI-Session perl-File-MimeInfo perl-gettext perl-Authen-Passphrase
+
+### Installing dependencies by hand
If you want to install by hand from the tarball, you should make sure that
all the perl modules are installed. This is one way to install them, using
CPAN:
- PERL5LIB=. PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT=1 perl -MCPAN -e 'CPAN::Shell->install("Bundle::IkiWiki")'
- PERL5LIB=. PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT=1 perl -MCPAN -e 'CPAN::Shell->install("Bundle::IkiWiki::Extras")'
+ PERL5LIB=`pwd` PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT=1 perl -MCPAN -e 'CPAN::Shell->install("Bundle::IkiWiki")'
+ PERL5LIB=`pwd` PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT=1 perl -MCPAN -e 'CPAN::Shell->install("Bundle::IkiWiki::Extras")'
+
+## Installing ikiwiki by hand
Then to build and install ikiwiki:
make test # optional
make install
-See [[download]] for where to get it.
+If you're using a shared hosting provider, of the sort where you don't have
+root, you can still install ikiwiki. There are tutorials covering this for
+a few providers:
+
+* [[tips/NearlyFreeSpeech]]
+* [[tips/DreamHost]]