-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.
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 [[MarkDown]] and the `HTML::Parser` perl module be
-installed, and also uses the following perl modules if available:
+Ikiwiki requires [[MarkDown]] and the `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`.
+The [[tla]] support also needs the `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
+ perl Makefile.PL # PREFIX=/dir to install elsewhere
make
make test # optional
make install