If you have the CPAN module installed then you can install the Template Toolkit like this from the command line:
$ cpan Template
Otherwise you can install from source code. The latest version of the Template Toolkit can be retrieved from:
http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Template/
Fetch and install AppConfig 1.56 if you don't already have it installed. Available from CPAN in:
http://www.cpan.org/authors/Andy_Wardley/
To install the Template Toolkit from the command line:
$ tar zxf Template-Toolkit-3.102.tar.gz
$ cd Template-Toolkit-3.102
$ perl Makefile.PL
$ make
$ make test
$ make install
The Makefile.PL will prompt for any additional configuration options.
For further details, see the sections below on CONFIGURATION, BUILDING AND TESTING, and INSTALLATION. The Template Toolkit web site also has further information about installation.
http://template-toolkit.org/download/index.html
The Template Toolkit is written entirely in Perl and should run on any platform on which Perl is available. It requires Perl 5.006 or later.
The 'ttree' utility uses the AppConfig module (version 1.56 or above) for parsing command line options and configuration files. It is available from CPAN:
http://www.cpan.org/authors/Andy_Wardley/
The Template Toolkit implements a "plugin" architecture which allow you to incorporate the functionality of virtually any Perl module into your templates. A number of plugin modules are included with the distribution for adding extra functionality or interfacing to external CPAN modules. You don't need to install any of these external modules unless you plan to use those particular plugins. See Template::Plugins and Template::Manual::Plugins for further details.
The latest release version of the Template Toolkit can be downloaded from any CPAN site:
http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Template/
Interim and development versions may also be available, along with other useful information, news, publications, mailing list archives, etc., from the Template Toolkit web site:
http://template-toolkit.org/
The Template Toolkit is distributed as a gzipped tar archive file:
Template-Toolkit-<version>.tar.gz
where version represents the current version number, e.g. 3.100.
To install the Template Toolkit, unpack the distribution archive to create an installation directory. Something like this:
$ tar zxf Template-Toolkit-3.102.tar.gz
or $ gunzip Template-Toolkit-3.102.tar.gz $ tar xf Template-Toolkit-3.102.tar
You can then 'cd' into the directory created,
$ cd Template-Toolkit-3.102
and perform the usual Perl installation procedure:
$ perl Makefile.PL
$ make
$ make test
$ make install # may need root access
The Makefile.PL performs various sanity checks and then prompts for a number of configuration items. The following CONFIGURATION section covers this in greater detail.
If you choose to install the optional components then you may need to perform some post-installation steps to ensure that the template libraries, HTML documentation and examples can be correctly viewed via your web browser. The INSTALLATION section covers this.
For advice on using Perl under Microsoft Windows, have a look here:
http://win32.perl.org/
If you're using Strawberry Perl then you can install the Template Toolkit using the CPAN module as described above.
If you're using ActivePerl then you can install it using the Perl Package Manager (ppm) with the pre-compiled packages built by Chris Winters. For further details, see:
http://openinteract.sourceforge.net/
http://activestate.com/
If you prefer, you can manually install the Template Toolkit on Win32 systems by following the instructions in this installation guide. However, please note that you are likely to encounter problems using 'make' and should instead download and use 'nmake' as a replacement. This is available from Microsoft's ftp site.
ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/Softlib/MSLFILES/nmake15.exe
In this case, you should substitute 'nmake' for 'make' in all the instructions contained herein.
This section covers the configuration of the Template Toolkit via the Makefile.PL program. If you've successfully run this and didn't have any problems answering any of the questions then you probably don't need to read this section.
The Makefile.PL Perl program performs the module configuration and generates the Makefile which can then be used to build, test and install the Template Toolkit.
$ perl Makefile.PL
The Template Toolkit now boasts a high-speed implementation of Template::Stash written in XS. You can choose to build this as an optional module for using explicitly as an alternative to the regular pure-perl stash module. In additional, you can opt to use the XS Stash as the default, typically making the Template Toolkit run twice as fast!
When prompted, answer 'y' or 'n' to build and optionally use the XS Stash module by default:
Do you want to build the XS Stash module? [y]
Do you want to use the XS Stash for all Templates? [n]
This section describes the "make" and "make test" commands which build and test the Template Toolkit. If you ran these without incident, then you can probably skip this section.
The 'make' command will build the Template Toolkit modules in the usual manner.
make
The 'make test' command runs the test scripts in the 't' subdirectory.
make test
You can set the TEST_VERBOSE flag when running 'make test' to see the results of the individual tests:
make test TEST_VERBOSE=1
This section describes the final installation of the Template Toolkit via the "make install" and covers any additional steps you may need to take if you opted to build the HTML documentation and/or examples.
The 'make install' will install the modules and scripts on your system. You may need administrator privileges to perform this task. Alternately you can can install the Template Toolkit to a local directory (see ExtUtils::MakeMaker for full details), e.g.
$ perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=/home/abw/
Don't forget to update your PERL5LIB environment variable if you do this, or add a line to your script to tell Perl where to find the files, e.g.
use lib qw( /home/abw/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.0 );