wt2db is made up of a Perl module (Wt2Db.pm) and a small wrapper script (wt2db), so it can be called from the command line or used in your Perl program. Therefore, it is installed like a Perl module. Installing the Perl module will also install the wrapper script into /usr/bin. To install the Perl module, run: perl Makefile.PL That will generate a Makefile. Then, run: make to build the package, and run: make test to convert a small, arbitrary bit of WikiText. If the output looks like DocBook, go ahead and run: make install as root to copy the files to the appropriate locations.