X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/b37070d888919ae30219ce13e4d3cce359fd75e1..f1e5ad61acdbd3369b08af6159bb9153793225bb:/doc/install.mdwn?ds=inline diff --git a/doc/install.mdwn b/doc/install.mdwn index 029323ada..22f1a3a39 100644 --- a/doc/install.mdwn +++ b/doc/install.mdwn @@ -1,13 +1,18 @@ -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`. +`HTML::Scrubber`, `RPC::XML`, `XML::Simple`, `XML::Feed`, `File::MimeInfo`. + +The [[tla]] support also needs the `MailTools` perl module. Various [[plugins]] use other libraries and utlities; see their individual documentation for details.