public-inbox is developed on Debian GNU/Linux systems and will
never depend on packages outside of the "main" component of
-the "stable" distribution, currently Debian 9.x ("stretch")
+the "stable" distribution, currently Debian 10.x ("buster"),
+but older versions of Debian remain supported.
Most packages are available in other GNU/Linux distributions
and FreeBSD.
public-inbox requires a number of other packages to access its full
functionality. The core tools are, of course:
-* Git (1.8.0+, 2.6+ for writing v2 repositories)
+* Git (1.8.0+, 2.6+ for writing v2 inboxes)
* Perl 5.10.1+
-* DBD::SQLite (needed for NNTP, message threading, and v2 repositories)
+* DBD::SQLite (needed for NNTP, message threading, and v2 inboxes)
To accept incoming mail into a public inbox, you'll likely want:
Beyond that, there is a long list of Perl modules required, starting with:
-* Date::Parse deb: libtimedate-perl
- pkg: p5-TimeDate
- rpm: perl-TimeDate
+* Digest::SHA typically installed with Perl
+ rpm: perl-Digest-SHA
+
+* URI::Escape deb: liburi-perl
+ pkg: p5-URI
+ rpm: perl-URI
+ (for HTML/Atom generation)
+
+Email::MIME will be optional as of public-inbox v1.5.0,
+it may still be used in maintainer comparison tests:
* Email::MIME deb: libemail-mime-perl
pkg: p5-Email-MIME
rpm: perl-Email-MIME
+Plack and Date::Parse are optional as of public-inbox v1.3.0,
+but required for older releases:
+
* Plack deb: libplack-perl
pkg: p5-Plack
rpm: perl-Plack, perl-Plack-Test,
(for HTML/Atom generation)
-* URI::Escape deb: liburi-perl
- pkg: p5-URI
- rpm: perl-URI
- (for HTML/Atom generation)
+- Date::Parse deb: libtimedate-perl
+ pkg: p5-TimeDate
+ rpm: perl-TimeDate
+ (for broken, mostly historical emails)
Where "deb" indicates package names for Debian-derived distributions,
"pkg" is for the FreeBSD package (maybe other common BSDs, too), and
- Search::Xapian deb: libsearch-xapian-perl
pkg: p5-Search-Xapian
rpm: perl-Search-Xapian
- (for v2, HTTP search)
+ (HTTP search)
- Net::Server deb: libnet-server-perl
pkg: pkg-Net-Server
not needed as systemd services or
foreground servers)
-- Inline::C[7] deb: libinline-c-perl
+- Inline::C deb: libinline-c-perl
pkg: pkg-Inline-C
(speeds up process spawning on Linux,
see public-inbox-daemon(8))
+- Email::Address::XS deb: libemail-address-xs-perl
+ pkg: pkg-Email-Address-XS
+ (correct parsing of tricky email
+ addresses, phrases and comments)
+
- Plack::Middleware::ReverseProxy deb: libplack-middleware-reverseproxy-perl
pkg: p5-Plack-Middleware-ReverseProxy
rpm: perl-Plack-Middleware-ReverseProxy
(ensures redirects are correct when running
behind nginx or Varnish)
-- Plack::Middleware::Deflater deb: libplack-middleware-deflater-perl
- pkg: p5 -Plack-Middleware-Deflater
- rpm: perl-Plack-Middleware-Deflater
- (saves bandwidth on responses)
-
* highlight deb: libhighlight-perl
(for syntax highlighting with coderepo)
The following modules are typically pulled in by dependencies listed
above, so there is no need to explicitly install them:
-- Email::MIME::ContentType deb: libemail-mime-contenttype-perl
- pkg: p5-Email-MIME-ContentType
- rpm: perl-Email-MIME-ContentType
- (pulled in by Email::MIME)
-
-- Email::Simple deb: libemail-simple-perl
- pkg: p5-Email-Simple
- rpm: perl-Email-Simple
- (pulled in by Email::MIME)
-
* Encode deb: libperl5.$MINOR (or libencode-perl)
pkg: perl5
rpm: perl-Encode
(optional for stale FD cleanup in daemons,
typically installed alongside Perl5)
-- Filesys::Notify::Simple deb: libfilesys-notify-simple-perl
- pkg: pkg-Filesys-Notify-Simple
- rpm: perl-Filesys-Notify-Simple
- (for public-inbox-watch, pulled in by Plack)
+- Linux::Inotify2 deb: liblinux-inotify2-perl
+ rpm: perl-Linux-Inotify2
+ (for public-inbox-watch on Linux)
-- IO::Compress::Gzip deb: perl-modules (or libio-compress-perl)
- rpm: perl-PerlIO-gzip
+- IO::Compress (::Gzip) deb: perl-modules (or libio-compress-perl)
pkg: perl5
- (for gzipped mbox over HTTP)
+ rpm: perl-IO-Compress
+ (for gzipped mbox over HTTP, v2 format)
Uncommonly needed modules:
Optional packages testing and development:
-- IPC::Run deb: libipc-run-perl
- pkg: p5-IPC-Run
- rpm: perl-IPC-Run
+- Plack::Test deb: libplack-test-perl
+ pkg: p5-Plack
+ rpm: perl-Plack-Test
-- XML::Feed deb: libxml-feed-perl
- pkg: p5-XML-Feed
- rpm: perl-XML-Feed
+- Test::Simple deb: perl-modules-5.$MINOR
+ pkg: perl5
+ rpm: perl-Test-Simple
-- Test::HTTP::Server::Simple deb: libtest-http-server-simple-perl
- pkg: p5-Test-HTTP-Server-Simple
- rpm: perl-Test-HTTP-Server-Simple
- (XXX is this really needed?)
+- XML::TreePP deb: libxml-treepp-perl
+ pkg: p5-XML-TreePP
+ rpm: perl-XML-TreePP
standard MakeMaker installation (Perl)
--------------------------------------
+To use MakeMaker, you need to ensure ExtUtils::MakeMaker is available.
+This is typically installed with Perl, but RPM-based systems will likely
+need to install the `perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker' package.
+
Once the dependencies are installed, you should be able to build and
install the system (into /usr/local) with:
perl Makefile.PL
make
- make test
+ make test # see HACKING for faster tests for hackers
make install # root permissions may be needed
When installing Search::Xapian, make sure the underlying Xapian
Copyright
---------
-Copyright 2013-2019 all contributors <meta@public-inbox.org>
+Copyright 2013-2020 all contributors <meta@public-inbox.org>
License: AGPL-3.0+ <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.txt>