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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.
 
-If you want to install from the tarball, you should make sure that the required perl modules are installed, then run:
+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).
 
-        perl Makefile.PL
+Ikiwiki requires the `Text::MarkDown`, `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`, `File::MimeInfo`.
+
+The [[tla]] support also needs the `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 # PREFIX=/dir to install elsewhere
         make
+       make test # optional
         make install
 
-See [[download]] for where to get it.
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+See [[download]] for where to get it.