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 The easiest way to install ikiwiki is using the Debian package.
 
+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: 
 `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`
+`HTML::Template` `Mail::Sendmail` `Time::Duration` `Date::Parse`,
+`HTML::Scrubber`, `RPC::XML`, `XML::Simple`, `XML::Feed`.
+
+Various [[plugins]] use other libraries and utlities; see their individual
+documentation for details.
 
 If you're installing MarkDown by hand, note that it should be installed as
 `Markdown.pm` somewhere in perl's module search path, or alternately as