No matter what I do, ikiwiki gives me a `Can't locate loadable object for module Locale::gettext in @INC` although I've installed (and reinstalled) the Locale module, and no luck. If I look at the directories in the INC path, I can see the file. The wiki won't compile in spite of this, and I've tried everything I can think of.. -- [[tychoish]] > Sounds like the `Locale::gettext` perl module is there, but your perl > installation is broken so that the accompnying so file is not there, or > doesn't work. On my system I have > `/usr/lib/perl5/Locale/gettext.pm` and > `/usr/lib/perl5/auto/Locale/gettext.so` -- suspect your problem is with > the second one. > > If you can't fix it, this problem could probably be worked around by > unsetting all environment variables when running ikiwiki (`LANG`, > `LC_ALL`, `LC_MESSAGES`). Then it won't try to load `Locale::gettext` at > all. --[[Joey]] --- I am trying to install Ikiwiki version 2.1 from the source tarball. It has all gone fairly smoothly until I try and run 'make'. I.e. I have downloaded and unpacked ikiwiki_2.1.tar.gz and have run perl Makefile.PL ... which has run OK. However when I then run 'make' I get:- LANG=C perl -I. -T ikiwiki.out doc html --templatedir=templates \ --underlaydir=basewiki --nousedirs\ --wikiname="ikiwiki" --verbose \ --exclude=/discussion --no-discussion --userdir=users \ --plugin=goodstuff \ --plugin=haiku --plugin=polygen --plugin=fortune Failed to load plugin IkiWiki::Plugin::mdwn: IkiWiki version 2 required--this is only version 1.01 at IkiWiki/Plugin/mdwn.pm line 7. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at IkiWiki/Plugin/mdwn.pm line 7. Compilation failed in require at (eval 4) line 2. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at (eval 4) line 2. make: *** [extra_build] Error 1 How do I fix this? There may be a bit of old ikiwiki left behind because I did once have an older version installed but I thought I had removed all traces of it. > I'm quite sure that you still have some of it floating around, since > ikiwiki seems to be loading an old IkiWiki.pm. > > I don't understand though why it's not finding ./IkiWiki.pm first. The > `-I` in the command line should make it look for files in the current > directory first. --[[Joey]] Well I have searched around and there really is nothing left that I can see. I have removed *everything* found by 'find' and 'locate' that contains 'ikiwiki' except the tar file and started from the beginning again and I see exactly the same error. Is it that I maybe have a too old version of some of the Perl dependencies? The only mdwn.pm files that I have are the two I have just extracted from the new tar file. There is *no* ./IkiWiki.pm file > It's interesting that you say you have no ./IkiWiki.pm file, since one is > included in the tarball. What happened to it, I wonder? so what/where is it loading to satisfy the ....... aaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!! I wasn't noticing the case of the filename, I'd missed the upper case W and guess what 'find' shows me:- /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/IkiWiki.pm Removing the above file has fixed my basic problem, now I'm getting lots of (non-fatal) errors about "Can't locate Locale/gettext.pm", presumably that's a missing Perl module, I can probably sort that out. ## Errors when running 'make test' OK, I've now got it to compile and install and presumably it's basically working. However there are a few errors when I run 'make test'. Several errors have disappeared by installing more Perl stuff (specifically XML::SAX) > XML::SAX is a requirement of XML::Simple, which is a documented build > requirement. (Only really needed if you'll be using subversion actually). and one error disappeared when I did a 'make install', i.e. the 'make test' has a test which requires IkiWiki to be installed first. > Yes, that bug is already fixed in subversion for the next release > --[[Joey]] However I'm still getting the following error in 'make test':- t/pagename.................ok t/pagespec_match...........ok 1/52Modification of a read-only value attempted at /home/chris/webdev/ikiwiki/blib/lib/IkiWiki.pm line 1023. # Looks like you planned 52 tests but only ran 23. # Looks like your test died just after 23. t/pagespec_match...........dubious Test returned status 255 (wstat 65280, 0xff00) DIED. FAILED tests 24-52 Failed 29/52 tests, 44.23% okay t/pagespec_merge...........ok > 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/Dreamhost]]. 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 installed. --[[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]] .. rendering todo/calendar_--_archive_browsing_via_a_calendar_frontend.mdwn make: *** [extra_build] Segmentation fault > So, perl on your system is segfaulting when running ikiwiki. What version > of perl is this, and what version of what distribution? --[[Joey]] $ perl -V Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 8 subversion 8) configuration: osname=linux, osvers=2.6.22, archname=i586-linux-thread-multi uname='linux ravel 2.6.22 #1 smp 20070921 22:29:00 utc i686 i686 i386 gnulinux ' config_args='-ds -e -Dprefix=/usr -Dvendorprefix=/usr -Dinstallusrbinperl -Dusethreads -Di_db -Di_dbm -Di_ndbm -Di_gdbm -Duseshrplib=true -Doptimize=-O2 -march=i586 -mtune=i686 -fmessage-length=0 -Wall -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fstack-protector -g -Wall -pipe' hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define usethreads=define use5005threads=undef useithreads=define usemultiplicity=define useperlio=define d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef Not sure how to provide proper version information for you.--[[vibrog]] --- I've tried a couple of times and my cpan has never recognised Bundle::IkiWiki. Is that section of the page still accurate? -- [[users/Jon]] > Are you running perl with the environemnt settings specified on the page? > Can you show how it fails to find the bundle? --[[Joey]] >> I was not. Next time I build I will have to try that (I'll need to tweak it as I already override PERL5LIB; also I need to specify http proxies). Thanks for your help! -- [[users/Jon]] --- ##Further problems with Bundle::IkiWiki I'm also having trouble with finding Bundle::IkiWiki. I've tried it with the environment settings and without them, and also using the interactive form of the cpan command. I've also gone to cpan.org and searched -- eg http://search.cpan.org/search?query=ikiwiki&mode=all and no Bundle for IkiWiki comes up at all. The error I get from the various cpan attempts is basically always the same: Warning: Cannot install Bundle::IkiWiki, don't know what it is. Try the command i /Bundle::IkiWiki/ to find objects with matching identifiers. When I try that command, BTW, it basically seems to find the same stuff I get when searching on the cpan web site. This happens both on Ubuntu 8.04 and CentOS 5.1 Any help would be greatly appreciated... --kent > Bundle::IkiWiki is included in ikiwiki itself, so of course cpan.org > does not know about it. > > If you can show me exactly what command you ran (the tested, working > commands on the parent page?) and how it failed, I can try to debug > your problem. Just today I noticed the "Bundle" subdirectory. What a moron I am! :-) Also, I misunderstood the PERL5LIB=`pwd` part -- I glibly thought it indicated the sink for the installation of the modules, rather than the source, and I was running the cpan command from another window in a different directory, and just spiraled down into error... > The real question in my mind is why you'd want to do this at all when > using Ubuntu, which incldues packages of ikiwiki and all its > dependencies. --[[Joey]] For ubuntu 8.04: $ ikiwiki --version ikiwiki version 2.32.3ubuntu2.1 $ 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 --- 03 September 2010, Report on successful manual install in Debian 5 (Lenny) AMD64: note: Maybe much more easy using backports, but using this tools you get a plain user cpan :) This where my steps: As root (#): # aptitude install build-essential curl libexpat1-dev As plain user ($): I use to install user perl modules using local::lib: http://github.com/poisonbit/sandbox/blob/master/bin/myperl.sh After that and relogin, you can install cpanm :) mkdir -p "$HOME/downloads" cd "$HOME/downloads/" curl -L http://cpanmin.us | perl - App::cpanminus source "/home/$USER/.bashrc" wget http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/i/ikiwiki/ikiwiki_3.20100831.tar.gz cpanm Text::Markdown cpanm URI cpanm HTML::Parser cpanm HTML::Template cpanm HTML::Scrubber cpanm CGI::FormBuilder cpanm CGI::Session tar -zxf ikiwiki_3.20100831.tar.gz cd ikiwiki/ perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=/home/$USER/.perl5 INSTALL_BASE= make make install make install INSTALL_BASE=/home/$USER/.perl5 Using cpan or cpanm with local::lib, you can install any other needed dependency, as plain user in your home (XS modules may need -dev packages) After all, here it's: ikiwiki --version ikiwiki version 3.20100831 Hope this could be useful for someone some day. Iñigo