-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
-5.8.8. (5.8.0 has been reported not to work).
-
-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 3.05 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).
-
-Various [[plugins]] use other libraries and utlities; see their individual
+5.10. (5.8.0 has been reported not to work).
+
+It's recommended you have a C compiler, as ikiwiki uses one to build
+wrappers.
+
+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 an appropriate set of these modules.
+### 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:
-While Fedora 7 doesn't have an ikiwiki package, you can install needed
-perl modules using this command:
+ 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")'
- 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
+## Installing ikiwiki by hand
-If you want to install from the tarball, you should make sure that the
-required perl modules are installed, then run:
+Then to build and install ikiwiki:
perl Makefile.PL # PREFIX=/dir to install elsewhere
make
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]]