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-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.
+This page documents how to install ikiwiki if a prepackaged version is not
+available for your distribution, and you are faced with [[downloading|download]]
+the source and installing by hand. Ikiwiki should work on most unix-like
+systems.
+
+## Dependencies
 
 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).
+5.10. (5.8.0 has been reported not to work).
 
-Ikiwiki requires the [[cpan Text::MarkDown]], [[cpan URI]] and
-[[cpan HTML::Parser]] perl modules be installed, and also uses the
-following perl modules if available: 
-[[cpan CGI::Session]], [[cpan CGI::FormBuilder]] (version 3.02.02 or newer),
-[[cpan HTML::Template]], [[cpan Mail::Sendmail]], [[cpan Time::Duration]]
-[[cpan TimeDate]], [[cpan HTML::Scrubber]], [[cpan RPC::XML]],
-[[cpan XML::Simple]], [[cpan XML::Feed]], [[cpan File::MimeInfo]].
+It's recommended you have a C compiler, as ikiwiki uses one to build
+wrappers.
 
-The [[tla]] support also needs the [[cpan MailTools]] perl module.
+Ikiwiki requires the [[!cpan Text::Markdown]], [[!cpan URI]],
+[[!cpan HTML::Parser]], [[!cpan HTML::Template]], and [[!cpan HTML::Scrubber]]
+perl modules be installed. It can also use a lot of other perl modules, if
+they are available.
 
-Various [[plugins]] use other libraries and utlities; see their individual
+Various [[plugins]] use other perl modules and utilities; 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:
+### Installing dependencies by hand
+
+If you want to install by hand from the tarball, you should make sure that
+all the perl modules are installed. This is one way to install them, using
+CPAN:
+
+	PERL5LIB=`pwd` PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT=1 perl -MCPAN -e 'CPAN::Shell->install("Bundle::IkiWiki")'
+	PERL5LIB=`pwd` PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT=1 perl -MCPAN -e 'CPAN::Shell->install("Bundle::IkiWiki::Extras")'
+
+## Installing ikiwiki by hand
+
+Then to build and install ikiwiki:
 
 	perl Makefile.PL # PREFIX=/dir to install elsewhere
 	make
 	make test # optional
 	make install
 
-See [[download]] for where to get it.
+If you're using a shared hosting provider, of the sort where you don't have
+root, you can still install ikiwiki. There are tutorials covering this for
+a few providers:
+
+* [[tips/NearlyFreeSpeech]]
+* [[tips/DreamHost]]