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-Here's how to get ikiwiki. See [[setup]] for how to use it, and be sure to add your wiki to [[IkiwikiUsers]] if you use ikiwiki.
+Here's how to get ikiwiki. See [[setup]] for how to use it, and be sure to
+add your wiki to [[IkiwikiUsers]] if you use ikiwiki.
 
-# tarball
+## tarball
 
 The best place to download a tarball of the latest release is from 
 <http://packages.debian.org/unstable/source/ikiwiki>.
 
-# Debian package
+Installation steps and requirements are listed on the [[install]] page.
 
-If using Debian unstable or testing:
+## packages
+
+If using Debian (since 4.0), or Ubuntu (since 6.10):
+[[template id=note text="""
+Note that Debian 4.0 and especially Ubuntu 6.10 contain older versions of
+ikiwiki, there have been lots of enhancements and bug fixes since those
+versions.
+"""]]
 
         apt-get install ikiwiki
 
 Or download the deb from <http://packages.debian.org/unstable/web/ikiwiki>.
 
-While this deb has been developed on Debian unstable, it should also work on stable, although to get the CGI stuff working on stable, you will need to upgrade to a newer version of libcgi-formbuilder-perl, `3.02.02`.
+There is a backport of a recent version of ikiwiki for Debian 4.0 at
+<http://packages.debian.org/etch-backports/ikiwiki>.
+
+There is also an unofficial backport of ikiwiki for Debian 3.1, provided by
+Paweł Tęcza, at <http://gpa.net.icm.edu.pl/debian/>.
+
+Also. FreeBSD has ikiwiki in its
+[ports collection](http://www.freshports.org/www/ikiwiki/).
+
+## revision control
+
+### git
+
+Ikiwiki is developed in a git repository and can be checked out by
+either of these commands:
+
+       git clone git://git.ikiwiki.info/
+       git clone http://git.ikiwiki.info/ikiwiki.git/
 
-# subversion
+The gitweb is [here](http://git.ikiwiki.info/?p=ikiwiki).
 
-The current development version of ikiwiki can be accessed using subversion at 
-`svn://ikiwiki.kitenet.net/ikiwiki/trunk`
+Commits to this git repository are fed into [CIA](http://cia.vc), and can
+be browsed, subscribed to etc on its
+[project page](http://cia.vc/stats/project/ikiwiki).
 
-The source in subversion can be browsed
-[with viewcvs](http://ikiwiki.kitenet.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/trunk/?root=ikiwiki).
+### subversion
 
-If you would like to be subscribed to svn commit messages for ikiwiki,
-mail joey@kitenet.net.
+Ikiwiki's subversion repository is no longer available, use git instead.