X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/7b28deb171455a207e536b8abebbca67242a4588..ce4fa7768cce4b5a18c7154a81bd9fe184b5b29d:/doc/install/discussion.mdwn diff --git a/doc/install/discussion.mdwn b/doc/install/discussion.mdwn index 2b88f6e66..02cdb29c9 100644 --- a/doc/install/discussion.mdwn +++ b/doc/install/discussion.mdwn @@ -172,9 +172,100 @@ 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? -- [[JonDowland]] +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! -- [[JonDowland]] +>> 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