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 > What version of perl are you using? It seems to have some problem with
 > operator overloading.
 > --[[Joey]]
+
+home$ perl -v
+
+This is perl, v5.8.8 built for i486-linux
+
+## Installation in a non-root enviroment
+I had a pretty hellacious time installing Ikiwiki (largely due to problems
+in Perl) and documented them in [[tips/SharedHosting]].  I'd like to get feedback on the doc and also know if I should file a few bugs to make the installation process a little friendlier to non-root folks.  Thanks for the great app!
+
+
+## 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.
+
+> TimeDate is also, confusingly, known as Date::Parse. Perhaps CPAN would
+> do better with that name. --[[Joey]]
+
+good. Date::Parse was already there. --[[vibrog]]
+
+`make` exits with `make: *** [extra_build] Aborted`, `make test` complains `cannot stat 'ikiwiki.man'` --[[vibrog]]
+
+> If you show me the actual error message, and not just the last line make
+> outputs, I might be able to help. --[[Joey]]