X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/38c2495a9fc74d1c728d4c43255bf62011f2da31..b6774bc6afac48e2c0a122647edc1485e7174a6e:/doc/install/discussion.mdwn?ds=inline diff --git a/doc/install/discussion.mdwn b/doc/install/discussion.mdwn index ebdb7e090..b27cc4bac 100644 --- a/doc/install/discussion.mdwn +++ b/doc/install/discussion.mdwn @@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ This is perl, v5.8.8 built for i486-linux ## Installation in a non-root enviroment I had a pretty hellacious time installing Ikiwiki (largely due to problems -in Perl) and documented them in [[tips/SharedHosting]]. I'd like to get feedback on the doc and also know if I should file a few bugs to make the installation process a little friendlier to non-root folks. Thanks for the great app! +in Perl) and documented them in [[tips/Dreamhost]]. I'd like to get feedback on the doc and also know if I should file a few bugs to make the installation process a little friendlier to non-root folks. Thanks for the great app! ## Typing error? @@ -169,3 +169,190 @@ good. Date::Parse was already installed. --[[vibrog]] usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef Not sure how to provide proper version information for you.--[[vibrog]] + +--- + +I've tried a couple of times and my cpan has never recognised Bundle::IkiWiki. Is that section of the page still accurate? -- [[users/Jon]] + +> Are you running perl with the environemnt settings specified on the page? +> Can you show how it fails to find the bundle? --[[Joey]] + +>> I was not. Next time I build I will have to try that (I'll need to tweak it as I already override PERL5LIB; also I need to specify http proxies). Thanks for your help! -- [[users/Jon]] + +--- + +##Further problems with Bundle::IkiWiki +I'm also having trouble with finding Bundle::IkiWiki. I've tried it with the environment settings and without them, and also using the interactive +form of the cpan command. I've also gone to cpan.org and searched -- eg + + http://search.cpan.org/search?query=ikiwiki&mode=all + +and no Bundle for IkiWiki comes up at all. + +The error I get from the various cpan attempts is basically always the same: + + Warning: Cannot install Bundle::IkiWiki, don't know what it is. + Try the command + + i /Bundle::IkiWiki/ + + to find objects with matching identifiers. + +When I try that command, BTW, it basically seems to find the same stuff I get when searching on the cpan web site. + +This happens both on Ubuntu 8.04 and CentOS 5.1 + +Any help would be greatly appreciated... --kent + +> Bundle::IkiWiki is included in ikiwiki itself, so of course cpan.org +> does not know about it. +> +> If you can show me exactly what command you ran (the tested, working +> commands on the parent page?) and how it failed, I can try to debug +> your problem. + +Just today I noticed the "Bundle" subdirectory. What a moron I am! :-) Also, I misunderstood the PERL5LIB=`pwd` part -- +I glibly thought it indicated the sink for the installation of the modules, rather than the source, and I was running +the cpan command from another window in a different directory, and just spiraled down into error... + +> The real question in my mind is why you'd want to do this at all when +> using Ubuntu, which incldues packages of ikiwiki and all its +> dependencies. --[[Joey]] + +For ubuntu 8.04: + + $ ikiwiki --version + ikiwiki version 2.32.3ubuntu2.1 + $ + +I was just trying to get the latest version. + +In any case, thanks for the help, and thanks for the superb software. I really like it a lot. + +--- + +## Prerequisite modules not found for non-root user +Hi, I'm a non-root user trying to use IkiWiki on an academic webserver with Perl 5.8.8 but several missing modules, so I grab them from CPAN (edited): + + cd ~; PERL5LIB=`pwd`/ikiwiki:`pwd`/ikiwiki/cpan:`pwd`/lib/perl5 PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT=1 perl -MCPAN -e 'CPAN::Shell->install("Bundle::IkiWiki")' + +That puts a lot of files in ~/.cpan. Then when I go into the directory where I untarred IkiWiki and try to run the Perl makefile: + + cd ~/ikiwiki; perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=$HOME/ikiwiki + +I get warnings that all the modules needed were not found: + +Warning: prerequisite CGI::FormBuilder not found. +Warning: prerequisite CGI::Session 0 not found. +Warning: prerequisite Date::Parse 0 not found. +Warning: prerequisite HTML::Scrubber 0 not found. +Warning: prerequisite HTML::Template 0 not found. +Warning: prerequisite Mail::Sendmail 0 not found. +Warning: prerequisite Text::Markdown 0 not found. + +CORRECTION 1: I played around with CPAN and got the installation to the point of succeeding with >99% of tests in "make test". + +> What was the magic CPAN rune that worked for you? --[[Joey]] + +An attempt of "make install" failed while trying to put files in /etc/IkiWiki but per the output's instructions, I reran "make install" and that seemed to work, until this error, which doesn't seem to be satisfiable: + + Warning: You do not have permissions to install into /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/ExtUtils/Install.pm line 114. + Installing /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/IkiWiki.pm + mkdir /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/IkiWiki: Permission denied at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/ExtUtils/Install.pm line 176 + +Any suggestions? Whew! + +> When you build ikiwiki, try doing it like this to make it +> install to your home directory. Then you can run `~/bin/ikiwiki` +> --[[Joey]] + + perl Makefile.PL INSTALL_BASE=$HOME PREFIX= + make + make install + +--- + +03 September 2010, Report on successful manual install in Debian 5 (Lenny) AMD64: + +note: Maybe much more easy using backports, but using this tools you get a plain user cpan :) + +This where my steps: + +As root (#): + + aptitude install build-essential curl perl + + +As plain user ($), I use to install user perl modules using local::lib + + mkdir -p "$HOME/downloads" + cd "$HOME/downloads/" + wget http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/G/GE/GETTY/local-lib-1.006007.tar.gz + wget http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/i/ikiwiki/ikiwiki_3.20100831.tar.gz + tar -zxf local-lib-1.006007.tar.gz + cd local-lib-1.006007/ + perl Makefile.PL --bootstrap=~/.perl5 + make test && make install + echo 'eval $(perl -I$HOME/.perl5/lib/perl5 -Mlocal::lib=$HOME/.perl5)' >>~/.bashrc + . ~/.bashrc + curl -L http://cpanmin.us | perl - App::cpanminus + cpanm CGI::FormBuilder + cpanm CGI::Session + cpanm HTML::Parser + cpanm HTML::Template + cpanm HTML::Scrubber + cpanm Text::Markdown + cpanm URI + cd .. + tar -zxf ikiwiki_3.20100831.tar.gz + cd ikiwiki/ + perl Makefile.PL INSTALL_BASE= PREFIX=/home/$USER/.perl5 + make test # All tests successful. + make install INSTALL_BASE=/home/$USER/.perl5 + . ~/.bashrc + +Using cpan or cpanm with local::lib, you can install any other dependency, as plain user (in your home). XS modules may need -dev packages. + +After all, here it's: + + ikiwiki -version + ikiwiki version 3.20100831 + +It seems like this installation looses the /etc files (we're as plain user), but this can be used as a workaround: + + ikiwiki -setup ~/downloads/ikiwiki/auto.setup + +I've not investigated more the /etc files ussage, but does not seems like a good idea to be as plain user... + + /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist does not exist + ** Failed to add you to the system wikilist file. + ** (Probably ikiwiki-update-wikilist is not SUID root.) + ** Your wiki will not be automatically updated when ikiwiki is upgraded. + + +Iñigo + +----- + + +Portability fixes encountered while maintaining the pkgsrc package: + +* In `IkiWiki::Setup::Standard::gendump()`, generate a shebang + matching the current `perl`. +* In `Makefile.PL`, provide overridable defaults for `SYSCONFDIR` + and `MANDIR`. +* In `Makefile.PL`, use `perl` to bump `ikiwiki.spec` instead of + `sed -i`. +* In `Makefile.PL`, specify more portable options to `cp`. + +I've attempted to mergeably patch these in my git, commit +5c177c96ac98b24aaa0613ca241fb113f1b32c55. + +--[[schmonz]] + +----- + +[[!template id=gitbranch branch=schmonz/portability author="[[schmonz]]"]] + +My git was in a screwy state so I started over. These changes are +now on a branch. --[[schmonz]]