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authorJoey Hess <joey@gnu.kitenet.net>2009-07-19 12:36:01 +0200
committerJoey Hess <joey@gnu.kitenet.net>2009-07-19 12:36:01 +0200
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@@ -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