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-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]] and the `HTML::Parser` perl module be
+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 the [[cpan Text::Markdown]], [[cpan URI]],
+[[cpan HTML::Parser]], and [[cpan HTML::Template]] perl modules 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`
+[[cpan CGI::Session]], [[cpan CGI::FormBuilder]] (version 3.02.02 or newer),
+[[cpan Mail::Sendmail]], [[cpan Time::Duration]], [[cpan TimeDate]],
+[[cpan HTML::Scrubber]], [[cpan RPC::XML]], [[cpan XML::Simple]],
+[[cpan XML::Feed]], [[cpan File::MimeInfo]], [[cpan Locale::gettext]]
+(version 1.04 or newer).
+
+The [[tla]] support also needs the [[cpan MailTools]] perl module.
+
+Various [[plugins]] use other libraries and utlities; see their individual
+documentation for details.
 
 If you want to install from the tarball, you should make sure that the
 required perl modules are installed, then run:
 
-        perl Makefile.PL
-        make
-        make install
+       perl Makefile.PL # PREFIX=/dir to install elsewhere
+       make
+       make test # optional
+       make install
 
 See [[download]] for where to get it.