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`. The [[tla]] support also needs the `MailTools` perl module. 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 `/usr/bin/markdown`. Ikiwiki will find it under either name. If you want to install from the tarball, you should make sure that the required perl modules are installed, then run: perl Makefile.PL # PREFIX=/dir to install elsewhere make make test # optional make install See [[download]] for where to get it.