Here's how to get ikiwiki. See [[setup]] for how to use it, and be sure to
add your wiki to [[IkiwikiUsers]] if you use ikiwiki.
-# tarball
+## tarball
The best place to download a tarball of the latest release is from
<http://packages.debian.org/unstable/source/ikiwiki>.
-# packages
+Installation steps and requirements are listed on the [[install]] page.
-If using Debian unstable or testing, or Ubuntu edgy:
+## packages
+
+If using Debian (since 4.0), or Ubuntu (since 6.10):
+[[template id=note text="""
+Note that Debian 4.0 and especially Ubuntu 6.10 contain older versions of
+ikiwiki, there have been lots of enhancements and bug fixes since those
+versions.
+"""]]
apt-get install ikiwiki
Or download the deb from <http://packages.debian.org/unstable/web/ikiwiki>.
-While this deb has been developed on Debian unstable, it should also work
-on stable, although to get the CGI stuff working on stable, you will need
-to upgrade to a newer version of libcgi-formbuilder-perl, `3.02.02`,
-and libcgi-session-perl `4.14-1`
+There is a backport of a recent version of ikiwiki for Debian 4.0 at
+<http://packages.debian.org/etch-backports/ikiwiki>.
-There is also an unofficial backport of ikiwiki for Debian stable, provided by
-Pawel Tecza, at <http://gpa.net.icm.edu.pl/debian/>.
+There is also an unofficial backport of ikiwiki for Debian 3.1, provided by
+Paweł Tęcza, at <http://gpa.net.icm.edu.pl/debian/>.
-# revision control
+Also. FreeBSD has ikiwiki in its
+[ports collection](http://www.freshports.org/www/ikiwiki/).
-## subversion
+## revision control
-The current development version of ikiwiki can be accessed using subversion at
-`svn://ikiwiki.info/ikiwiki/trunk`
+### git
-The source in subversion can be browsed
-[here](http://ikiwiki.info/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/trunk/?root=ikiwiki).
+Ikiwiki is developed in a git repository and can be checked out by
+either of these commands:
-Commits to ikiwiki's source code are now fed into
-[CIA](http://cia.navi.cx/), and can be browsed, subscribed to etc on its
-[project page](http://cia.navi.cx/stats/project/ikiwiki). Note that changes
-to the documentation wiki are currently excluded.
+ git clone git://git.ikiwiki.info/
+ git clone http://git.ikiwiki.info/ikiwiki.git/
-## git
+The gitweb is [here](http://git.ikiwiki.info/?p=ikiwiki).
-A git mirror of the trunk of the subversion repository is available at
-<http://ikiwiki.info/ikiwiki.git/.git>. It is updated whenever
-changes are committed to the subversion repository.
+Commits to this git repository are fed into [CIA](http://cia.vc), and can
+be browsed, subscribed to etc on its
+[project page](http://cia.vc/stats/project/ikiwiki).
-## arch
+### subversion
-An unofficial arch mirror of the subversion repository is at
-<http://arch.debian.org/arch/private/srivasta/archive-2006-misc>
-and can be browsed [here](http://arch.debian.org/cgi-bin/archzoom.cgi/srivasta@debian.org--2006-misc?color=default?layout=larger?expand).
+Ikiwiki's subversion repository is no longer available, use git instead.