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[ikiwiki.git] / doc / install.mdwn

diff --git a/doc/install.mdwn b/doc/install.mdwn
index 4f6dd69fd911cdb156b83d1cb5cb1a0306b31c25..22f1a3a39b4e6efe47045eb3a12a4d546ac3848f 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/install.mdwn
+++ b/doc/install.mdwn
@@ -1,13 +1,18 @@
-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 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: 
+Ikiwiki requires [[MarkDown]] and the `URI` and `HTML::Parser` 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`.
+`HTML::Template` `Mail::Sendmail` `Time::Duration` `Date::Parse`,
+`HTML::Scrubber`, `RPC::XML`, `XML::Simple`, `XML::Feed`, `File::MimeInfo`.
+
+The [[tla]] support also needs the `MailTools` perl module.
 
 Various [[plugins]] use other libraries and utlities; see their individual
 documentation for details.
@@ -19,7 +24,7 @@ If you're installing MarkDown by hand, note that it should be installed as
 If you want to install from the tarball, you should make sure that the
 required perl modules are installed, then run:
 
-        perl Makefile.PL
+        perl Makefile.PL # PREFIX=/dir to install elsewhere
         make
        make test # optional
         make install