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:
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
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))
- 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: