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-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]],
+[[cpan HTML::Parser]], and [[cpan HTML::Template]] 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),
+[[cpan Mail::Sendmail]], [[cpan Time::Duration]], [[cpan TimeDate]],
+[[cpan HTML::Scrubber]], [[cpan RPC::XML]], [[cpan XML::Simple]],
+[[cpan XML::Feed]], [[cpan File::MimeInfo]], [[cpan Locale::gettext]]
+(version 1.04 or newer).

 
 

-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.