-The easiest way to install ikiwiki is using the Debian package.
+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.
-If you want to install from the tarball, you should make sure that the required perl modules are installed, then run:
+Ikiwiki is a perl program, and needs a recent version of perl such as
+5.8.8. (5.8.0 has been reported not to work).
- perl Makefile.PL
- make
- make install
+Ikiwiki requires the [[cpan Text::MarkDown]], [[cpan URI]] and
+[[cpan HTML::Parser]] perl modules be installed, and also uses the
+following perl modules if available:
+[[cpan CGI::Session]], [[cpan CGI::FormBuilder]] (version 3.02.02 or newer,
+but 3.0401 might be broken),
+[[cpan HTML::Template]], [[cpan Mail::Sendmail]], [[cpan Time::Duration]]
+[[cpan TimeDate]], [[cpan HTML::Scrubber]], [[cpan RPC::XML]],
+[[cpan XML::Simple]], [[cpan XML::Feed]], [[cpan File::MimeInfo]].
-See [[download]] for where to get it.
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+The [[tla]] support also needs the [[cpan MailTools]] perl module.
+
+Various [[plugins]] use other libraries and utlities; see their individual
+documentation for details.
+
+If you want to install from the tarball, you should make sure that the
+required perl modules are installed, then run:
+
+ perl Makefile.PL # PREFIX=/dir to install elsewhere
+ make
+ make test # optional
+ make install
+
+See [[download]] for where to get it.