X-Git-Url: http://www.git.stargrave.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=INSTALL;h=eb939a59d596c0f20e7f03f931791b4337b9dee5;hb=165efd91f75d64213eda4cebae11b310f8844300;hp=e1aa2c0e92d6f99c6086cf38cb4180a4de38f175;hpb=471919dcab4b56b69ed1a90203db41359213fbba;p=public-inbox.git diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index e1aa2c0e..eb939a59 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ Clients should use normal git-clone/git-fetch, IMAP or NNTP clients if they want to import mail into their personal inboxes. As of 2021, public-inbox is packaged by several OS distributions, -listed in alphabetical order: Debian, NixOS, and Void Linux. +listed in alphabetical order: Debian, GNU Guix, NixOS, and Void Linux. public-inbox is developed on Debian GNU/Linux systems and will never depend on packages outside of the "main" component of @@ -36,9 +36,9 @@ To accept incoming mail into a public inbox, you'll likely want: * MTA - postfix is recommended (for public-inbox-mda) * SpamAssassin (spamc/spamd) (for public-inbox-watch/public-inbox-mda) -Beyond that, there is one non-standard Perl module required: +Beyond that, there is one non-standard Perl package required: -* URI::Escape deb: liburi-perl +* URI deb: liburi-perl pkg: p5-URI rpm: perl-URI (for HTML/Atom generation) @@ -174,9 +174,10 @@ Other installation notes Debian 8.x (jessie) users, use Debian 8.5 or later if using Xapian: https://bugs.debian.org/808610 -public-inbox will never store unregeneratable data in Xapian -or any other search database we might use; Xapian corruption -will not destroy critical data. +public-inbox-* commands will never store unregeneratable data in +Xapian nor any other search database we might use; Xapian +corruption will not destroy critical data. Note: `lei' DOES store +unregeneratable data in Xapian and SQLite. See the public-inbox-overview(7) man page for the next steps once the installation is complete.