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@@ -245,3 +245,25 @@ Thank you! I'm not a Perl programmer, so what's your opinion: is this behavior a
 
 I am experiencing the same problem "/etc/ikiwiki/custom: failed to set up the repository with ikiwiki-makerepo
 " on Debian squeeze with perl5.10.0. Upgrading to ikiwiki 3.10 fixes it. -- [Albert](http://www.docunext.com/)
+
+----
+
+Just a note, perl 5.10 isn't packaged as part of RHEL or thus CentOS nor EPEL,
+so it's not especially trivial to satisfy that requirement for ikiwiki on
+those platforms, without backporting it from Fedora or building from source.
+However, I have an ikiwiki 3.20100403 running on RHEL-4 supplied 5.8.8 without
+(seemingly too much) complaint.  How strong is the 5.10 requirement? what
+precicely breaks without it? -- [[Jon]]
+
+> I don't remember what was the specific problem with perl 5.8.8. All I can
+> find is some taint checking bugs, which are currently worked around by
+> taint checking being disabled. --[[Joey]]
+
+---
+
+Did anyone tried to install ikiwiki under a vhost setup ? 
+ikiwiki is installed under a debian lenny system. but without write acces to /etc/ikiwiki (obvious) i am coming not far.
+Or do i miss something which is probably hidden deeper in the documentation ?
+
+----
+Perhaps it's worth noting that when installing ikiwiki with apt on Debian stable, you need to use the backports version in order to follow the setup instructions.