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 `Text::MarkDown`, `URI` and `HTML::Parser` perl
-modules be installed, and also uses the following perl modules if
-available:
-`CGI::Session` `CGI::FormBuilder` (version 3.02.02 or newer)
-`HTML::Template` `Mail::Sendmail` `Time::Duration` `Date::Parse`,
-`HTML::Scrubber`, `RPC::XML`, `XML::Simple`, `XML::Feed`, `File::MimeInfo`.
+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]].
-The [[tla]] support also needs the `MailTools` perl module.
+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
+ perl Makefile.PL # PREFIX=/dir to install elsewhere
+ make
make test # optional
- make install
+ make install
See [[download]] for where to get it.