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| author | Joey Hess <joey@gnu.kitenet.net> | 2009-07-19 12:36:01 +0200 |
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| committer | Joey Hess <joey@gnu.kitenet.net> | 2009-07-19 12:36:01 +0200 |
| commit | ec965fc92cd41f597c6e8e88584b9a688407c8c6 (patch) | |
| tree | 410173c14f66ae62a6436ea00b73bb470c9d1dda /doc/install | |
| parent | 86edd73d169600875a10a635ef8df4a644545b0d (diff) | |
| parent | fa2c3a3dba2a4589b63cf445ec9e33ec19be627e (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'master' into po
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diff --git a/doc/install/discussion.mdwn b/doc/install/discussion.mdwn index c1129a435..02cdb29c9 100644 --- a/doc/install/discussion.mdwn +++ b/doc/install/discussion.mdwn @@ -228,3 +228,44 @@ For ubuntu 8.04: I was just trying to get the latest version. In any case, thanks for the help, and thanks for the superb software. I really like it a lot. + +--- + +## Prerequisite modules not found for non-root user +Hi, I'm a non-root user trying to use IkiWiki on an academic webserver with Perl 5.8.8 but several missing modules, so I grab them from CPAN (edited): + + cd ~; PERL5LIB=`pwd`/ikiwiki:`pwd`/ikiwiki/cpan:`pwd`/lib/perl5 PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT=1 perl -MCPAN -e 'CPAN::Shell->install("Bundle::IkiWiki")' + +That puts a lot of files in ~/.cpan. Then when I go into the directory where I untarred IkiWiki and try to run the Perl makefile: + + cd ~/ikiwiki; perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=$HOME/ikiwiki + +I get warnings that all the modules needed were not found: + +Warning: prerequisite CGI::FormBuilder not found. +Warning: prerequisite CGI::Session 0 not found. +Warning: prerequisite Date::Parse 0 not found. +Warning: prerequisite HTML::Scrubber 0 not found. +Warning: prerequisite HTML::Template 0 not found. +Warning: prerequisite Mail::Sendmail 0 not found. +Warning: prerequisite Text::Markdown 0 not found. + +CORRECTION 1: I played around with CPAN and got the installation to the point of succeeding with >99% of tests in "make test". + +> What was the magic CPAN rune that worked for you? --[[Joey]] + +An attempt of "make install" failed while trying to put files in /etc/IkiWiki but per the output's instructions, I reran "make install" and that seemed to work, until this error, which doesn't seem to be satisfiable: + + Warning: You do not have permissions to install into /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/ExtUtils/Install.pm line 114. + Installing /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/IkiWiki.pm + mkdir /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/IkiWiki: Permission denied at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/ExtUtils/Install.pm line 176 + +Any suggestions? Whew! + +> When you build ikiwiki, try doing it like this to make it +> install to your home directory. Then you can run `~/bin/ikiwiki` +> --[[Joey]] + + perl Makefile.PL INSTALL_BASE=$HOME PREFIX= + make + make install |