Ikiwiki requires the [[!cpan Text::Markdown::Discount]] (or
[[!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
+[[!cpan HTML::Parser]], [[!cpan HTML::Template]], [[!cpan YAML::XS]] 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
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:
+CPAN to install modules from your local machine after you extract the ikiwiki tarball:
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")'
Then to build and install ikiwiki:
- perl Makefile.PL # PREFIX=/dir to install elsewhere
+ perl Makefile.PL # INSTALL_BASE= PREFIX=/dir to install elsewhere
make
make test # optional
make install