ikiwiki/ install

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).

Ikiwiki requires the Text::Markdown, URI, HTML::Parser, and HTML::Template perl modules be installed.

It also uses the following perl modules if available: CGI::Session, CGI::FormBuilder (version 3.05 or newer), Mail::Sendmail, Time::Duration, TimeDate, HTML::Scrubber, RPC::XML, XML::Simple, XML::Feed, File::MimeInfo, Locale::gettext (version 1.04 or newer).

It's recommended you have a C compiler, as ikiwiki uses one to build wrappers.

Various plugins use other libraries and utlities; see their individual documentation for details.

The Debian packages depend on and recommend an appropriate set of packages.

While Fedora 7 doesn't have an ikiwiki package, you can install needed perl modules using this command:

yum install perl-Text-Markdown perl-Mail-Sendmail perl-HTML-Scrubber \
  perl-XML-Simple perl-TimeDate perl-HTML-Template perl-CGI-FormBuilder \
  perl-CGI-Session perl-File-MimeInfo perl-gettext

If you want to install from the tarball, you should make sure that the required perl modules are installed, then run:

perl Makefile.PL # PREFIX=/dir to install elsewhere
make
make test # optional
make install

See download for where to get it.