This page documents how to install ikiwiki if a prepackaged version is not available for your distribution, and you are faced with [[downloading|download]] the source and installing by hand. Ikiwiki should work on most unix-like systems. ## Dependencies 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). It's recommended you have a C compiler, as ikiwiki uses one to build wrappers. 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. Various [[plugins]] use other perl modules and utilities; see their individual documentation for details. ### Installing dependencies with yum Here's an example of how to install ikiwiki's dependencies using yum on Fedora 7: 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 perl-Authen-Passphrase ### Installing dependencies by hand 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=`pwd` PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT=1 perl -MCPAN -e 'CPAN::Shell->install("Bundle::IkiWiki")' PERL5LIB=`pwd` PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT=1 perl -MCPAN -e 'CPAN::Shell->install("Bundle::IkiWiki::Extras")' ## Installing ikiwiki by hand Then to build and install ikiwiki: perl Makefile.PL # PREFIX=/dir to install elsewhere make make test # optional make install If you're using a shared hosting provider, of the sort where you don't have root, you can still install ikiwiki. There are tutorials covering this for a few providers: * [[tips/NearlyFreeSpeech]] * [[tips/DreamHost]]