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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 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? -- 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! -- 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 perl

As plain user ($), I use to install user perl modules using local::lib

    mkdir -p "$HOME/downloads"
    cd "$HOME/downloads/"
    wget http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/G/GE/GETTY/local-lib-1.006007.tar.gz
    wget http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/i/ikiwiki/ikiwiki_3.20100831.tar.gz
    tar -zxf local-lib-1.006007.tar.gz 
    cd local-lib-1.006007/
    perl Makefile.PL --bootstrap=~/.perl5
    make test && make install
    echo 'eval $(perl -I$HOME/.perl5/lib/perl5 -Mlocal::lib=$HOME/.perl5)' >>~/.bashrc
    . ~/.bashrc
    curl -L http://cpanmin.us | perl - App::cpanminus
    cpanm CGI::FormBuilder
    cpanm CGI::Session
    cpanm HTML::Parser
    cpanm HTML::Template
    cpanm HTML::Scrubber
    cpanm Text::Markdown
    cpanm URI
    cd ..
    tar -zxf ikiwiki_3.20100831.tar.gz
    cd ikiwiki/
    perl Makefile.PL INSTALL_BASE= PREFIX=/home/$USER/.perl5
    make test    # All tests successful.
    make install INSTALL_BASE=/home/$USER/.perl5
    . ~/.bashrc

Using cpan or cpanm with local::lib, you can install any other dependency, as plain user (in your home). XS modules may need -dev packages.

After all, here it's:

    ikiwiki -version
    ikiwiki version 3.20100831

It seems like this installation looses the /etc files (we're as plain user), but this can be used as a workaround:

    ikiwiki -setup ~/downloads/ikiwiki/auto.setup

I've not investigated more the /etc files ussage, but does not seems like a good idea to be as plain user...

    /etc/ikiwiki/wikilist does not exist
    ** Failed to add you to the system wikilist file.
    ** (Probably ikiwiki-update-wikilist is not SUID root.)
    ** Your wiki will not be automatically updated when ikiwiki is upgraded.

Iñigo

Portability fixes encountered while maintaining the pkgsrc package:

In IkiWiki::Setup::Standard::gendump(), generate a shebang matching the current perl.
In Makefile.PL, provide overridable defaults for SYSCONFDIR and MANDIR.
In Makefile.PL, use perl to bump ikiwiki.spec instead of sed -i.
In Makefile.PL, specify more portable options to cp.

I've attempted to mergeably patch these in my git, commit 5c177c96ac98b24aaa0613ca241fb113f1b32c55.

--schmonz

Available in a git repository branch.
Branch: schmonz/portability
Author: schmonz

My git was in a screwy state so I started over. These changes are now on a branch. --schmonz