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@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
-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).
@@ -9,6 +11,8 @@ installed, and also uses the following perl modules if available:
 `HTML::Template` `Mail::Sendmail` `Time::Duration` `Date::Parse`,
 `HTML::Scrubber`, `RPC::XML`, `XML::Simple`, `XML::Feed`.
 
+The [[tla]] support also needs the `MailTools` perl module.
+
 Various [[plugins]] use other libraries and utlities; see their individual
 documentation for details.