X-Git-Url: http://www.git.stargrave.org/?p=public-inbox.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=INSTALL;h=3984df718f95684c28865fba89812d18a42b8ef9;hp=6d5ef94c666974f1d5735db9dee53e00caa21406;hb=6ebcec3add4d6aeff6e3b3eb019a404528c079ec;hpb=436f9dfcd3e3d3e65cb882fd518634d9f95ac19c diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index 6d5ef94c..3984df71 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -7,7 +7,8 @@ if they want to import mail into their personal inboxes. 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. @@ -21,9 +22,9 @@ Requirements 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: @@ -44,8 +45,8 @@ Beyond that, there is a long list of Perl modules required, starting with: rpm: perl-URI (for HTML/Atom generation) -Plack and Date::Parse will be optional when v1.3.0 is released, -but required for current and older releases: +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 @@ -80,7 +81,7 @@ Numerous optional modules are likely to be useful as well: 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)) @@ -145,10 +146,10 @@ above, so there is no need to explicitly install them: - Filesys::Notify::KQueue pkg: p5-Filesys-Notify-KQueue (for public-inbox-watch on FreeBSD) -- IO::Compress::Gzip deb: perl-modules (or libio-compress-perl) +- IO::Compress (::Gzip) deb: perl-modules (or libio-compress-perl) pkg: perl5 rpm: perl-IO-Compress - (for gzipped mbox over HTTP) + (for gzipped mbox over HTTP, v2 format) Uncommonly needed modules: @@ -174,9 +175,9 @@ Optional packages testing and development: pkg: perl5 rpm: perl-Test-Simple -- XML::Feed deb: libxml-feed-perl - pkg: p5-XML-Feed - rpm: perl-XML-Feed +- XML::TreePP deb: libxml-treepp-perl + pkg: p5-XML-TreePP + rpm: perl-XML-TreePP standard MakeMaker installation (Perl) -------------------------------------- @@ -210,5 +211,5 @@ the installation is complete. Copyright --------- -Copyright 2013-2019 all contributors +Copyright 2013-2020 all contributors License: AGPL-3.0+