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@@ -100,3 +100,28 @@ in Perl) and documented them in [[tips/SharedHosting]].  I'd like to get feedbac
 ## Typing error?
 
 [..] Mail::Sendmail, TimeDate, RPC::XML, [..]: should be DateTime? --[[vibrog]]
+
+> No, TimeDate and DateTime are two different CPAN modules. Ikiwiki uses
+> TimeDate. --[[Joey]]
+
+ah, i still don't fully get it, though (the following is slightly shortened):
+
+    $ perl -MCPAN -e shell
+    cpan> install DateTime
+    DateTime is up to date.
+    cpan> install TimeDate
+    Warning: Cannot install TimeDate, don't know what it is.
+    Try the command
+        i /TimeDate/
+    to find objects with matching identifiers.
+
+I'm trying to build IkiWiki on a fresh OpenSuse 10.3 box. I start out with
+
+    $ perl -MCPAN -e 'install Text::Markdown URI HTML::Parser HTML::Template HTML::Scrubber'
+    $ git clone git://git.ikiwiki.info/ ikiwiki && cd ikiwiki
+    $ perl Makefile.PL && make
+
+Are there other prerequisites?
+I also installed all optional Perl modules, except TimeDate.
+
+`make` exits with `make: *** [extra_build] Aborted`, `make test` complains `cannot stat 'ikiwiki.man'`