Question

Hi,

This looks like a great product, but you manual seems to assume that the person installaing knows Perl/RCS/Apache etc and does not really show one how to install.

I started searching for some of the CPAN perl modules found a few in the repos I use (Fedora), but can't find the rest.. are you supposed install manually?

Also the testenv script on the support site does not seem to be updated.

Does anyone have a step by step guide for installing on Fedora (Core 4 pref)

Thanks

Environment

-- TWikiGuest - 02 Feb 2006

Answer

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Use the new version.

-- MartinCleaver - 02 Feb 2006

Guest: Are you using TWikiRelease04x00x00 as indicated or TWikiRelease04Sep2004? The 4.0.0 release has no longer a testenv, it is replaced by the configure script. Please specify.

-- PeterThoeny - 02 Feb 2006

Ah, I see that thanks

Still to difficult... hell you can compile apache with a stack of option... who even knows about the one with FC4...

I'd love to play with this, but it seems like to much PT.

Also the Perl Mod... some of them don't seem to be available in the FC4 repos, unless the modules I can't find are wrapped up in an rpm with another name....

I hope someone will offer up a Fedora howto at some stage... I'm in no rush at the mo, but will pop back now and again to check. At the mo, I'm using JSPWiki... (dead simple to setup) but fear that I'm going to start needed features that it does not have.

Thanks anyways

Looks cool.. maybe someday...

-- TWikiGuest - 03 Feb 2006

Use CPAN to install the modules by performing the following steps:

From the root prompt on your server, invoke the CPAN shell:

# perl -MCPAN -e shell

Once the Perl interpreter has loaded (and been configured), you can install modules by issuing the command install MODULENAME.

The first thing you should do is upgrade your CPAN:

cpan> install Bundle::CPAN

Once it's done, type:

cpan> reload cpan

Now, enter the install command to retrieve all of the required modules from the TWikiSystemRequirements. Here is an example:

cpan> install DBI

cpan> install Digest::MD5

cpan> install Digest::SHA1

cpan> install Image::Size

cpan> install MIME::Lite

cpan> install MIME::Words

cpan> install Compress::Zlib

Also, I was able to install Twiki for testing using this vmware setup (Windows and Linux compatible) at TWikiVMDebianStable.

-- RyanKnoll - 27 Feb 2006

Thanks for the info. Is there a more comprehensive install guide out for twiki 4.0.2? I have looked but not come across any.

-- MorganThistle - 07 Apr 2006

The install guide has been simplified in TWiki 4 and assumes webmaster skills, which as a consequence, makes it harder for people not fluent with Apache and cgi-scripts to install TWiki. See InstallingTWiki supplement for more.

-- PeterThoeny - 07 Apr 2006

There is also an INSTALL.html file included in the 4.0.2 distribution (it was left out of 4.0.1) that provides some additional installation notes.

-- LynnwoodBrown - 07 Apr 2006