Use ./Makefile.PL to generate a Makefile, "make" will build the documentation wiki and a man page, and "make install" will install ikiwiki. All other documentation is in the ikiwiki documentation wiki, which is also available online at A few special variables you can set while using the Makefile: PROFILE=1 turns on profiling for the build of the doc wiki. (Uses Devel::Profile) NOTAINT=0 turns on the taint flag in the ikiwiki program. (Not recommended unless your perl is less buggy than mine -- see http://bugs.debian.org/411786) There are also other variables supported by MakeMaker, including PREFIX, INSTALL_BASE, and DESTDIR. See ExtUtils::MakeMaker(3). In particular, INSTALL_BASE is very useful if you want to install ikiwiki to some other location, as it configures it to see the perl libraries there. See `doc/tips/nearlyfreespeech.mdwn` for an example of using this to install ikiwiki and its dependencies in a home directory.