X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/bde6809e5bf8d0fbd92f37438e1ffe779ee1c3cc..6c5f315970b0e7a8473e9a1151229459781192a8:/doc/install/discussion.mdwn diff --git a/doc/install/discussion.mdwn b/doc/install/discussion.mdwn index 52f5e075c..02cdb29c9 100644 --- a/doc/install/discussion.mdwn +++ b/doc/install/discussion.mdwn @@ -1,3 +1,19 @@ +No matter what I do, ikiwiki gives me a `Can't locate loadable object for module Locale::gettext in @INC` although I've installed (and reinstalled) the Locale module, and no luck. If I look at the directories in the INC path, I can see the file. The wiki won't compile in spite of this, and I've tried everything I can think of.. -- [[tychoish]] + +> Sounds like the `Locale::gettext` perl module is there, but your perl +> installation is broken so that the accompnying so file is not there, or +> doesn't work. On my system I have +> `/usr/lib/perl5/Locale/gettext.pm` and +> `/usr/lib/perl5/auto/Locale/gettext.so` -- suspect your problem is with +> the second one. +> +> If you can't fix it, this problem could probably be worked around by +> unsetting all environment variables when running ikiwiki (`LANG`, +> `LC_ALL`, `LC_MESSAGES`). Then it won't try to load `Locale::gettext` at +> all. --[[Joey]] + +--- + I am trying to install Ikiwiki version 2.1 from the source tarball. It has all gone fairly smoothly until I try and run 'make'. @@ -94,7 +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? @@ -124,4 +140,132 @@ I'm trying to build IkiWiki on a fresh OpenSuse 10.3 box. I start out with Are there other prerequisites? I also installed all optional Perl modules, except TimeDate. -`make` exits with `make: *** [extra_build] Aborted`, `make test` complains `cannot stat 'ikiwiki.man'` +> TimeDate is also, confusingly, known as Date::Parse. Perhaps CPAN would +> do better with that name. --[[Joey]] + +good. Date::Parse was already installed. --[[vibrog]] + +`make` exits with `make: *** [extra_build] Aborted`, `make test` complains `cannot stat 'ikiwiki.man'` --[[vibrog]] + +> If you show me the actual error message, and not just the last line make +> outputs, I might be able to help. --[[Joey]] + + .. + rendering todo/calendar_--_archive_browsing_via_a_calendar_frontend.mdwn + make: *** [extra_build] Segmentation fault + +> So, perl on your system is segfaulting when running ikiwiki. What version +> of perl is this, and what version of what distribution? --[[Joey]] + + $ perl -V + Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 8 subversion 8) configuration: + osname=linux, osvers=2.6.22, archname=i586-linux-thread-multi + uname='linux ravel 2.6.22 #1 smp 20070921 22:29:00 utc i686 i686 i386 gnulinux ' + config_args='-ds -e -Dprefix=/usr -Dvendorprefix=/usr -Dinstallusrbinperl -Dusethreads -Di_db -Di_dbm -Di_ndbm -Di_gdbm -Duseshrplib=true -Doptimize=-O2 -march=i586 -mtune=i686 -fmessage-length=0 -Wall -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fstack-protector -g -Wall -pipe' + hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define + usethreads=define use5005threads=undef useithreads=define usemultiplicity=define + useperlio=define d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef + use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef + 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