-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 requires [[MarkDown]] 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` (libtimedate-perl), `HTML::Scrubber`, `RPC::XML`,
-`XML::Simple`, `XML::Feed`, `HTML::Parser`
+Ikiwiki is a perl program, and needs a recent version of perl such as
+5.10. (5.8.0 has been reported not to work).
-If you want to install from the tarball, you should make sure that the
-required perl modules are installed, then run:
+Ikiwiki requires the [[cpan Text::Markdown]], [[cpan URI]],
+[[cpan HTML::Parser]], [[cpan HTML::Template]], and [[cpan HTML::Scrubber]]
+perl modules be installed. It can also use a lot of other perl modules, if
+they are available.
- perl Makefile.PL
- make
- make install
+It's recommended you have a C compiler, as ikiwiki uses one to build
+wrappers.
+
+Various [[plugins]] use other libraries and utlities; see their individual
+documentation for details.
+
+The Debian packages depend on and recommend an appropriate set of packages.
+
+While Fedora 7 doesn't have an ikiwiki package, you can install needed
+perl modules using this command:
+
+ yum install perl-Text-Markdown perl-Mail-Sendmail perl-HTML-Scrubber \
+ perl-XML-Simple perl-TimeDate perl-HTML-Template perl-CGI-FormBuilder \
+ perl-CGI-Session perl-File-MimeInfo perl-gettext
+
+If you want to install by hand from the tarball, you should make sure that
+all the perl modules are installed. This is one way to install them, using
+CPAN:
+
+ PERL5LIB=. PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT=1 perl -MCPAN -e 'CPAN::Shell->install("Bundle::IkiWiki")'
+ PERL5LIB=. PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT=1 perl -MCPAN -e 'CPAN::Shell->install("Bundle::IkiWiki::Extras")'
+
+Then to build and install ikiwiki:
+
+ perl Makefile.PL # PREFIX=/dir to install elsewhere
+ make
+ make test # optional
+ make install
See [[download]] for where to get it.