Follow the following steps to build the homesite:

1. Install Subversion.

2. Install perl 5.8.x (or later) in case it's not already installed. You
should have a package for for your system.

3. Install Website Meta Language (version 2.0.12 or later):

http://developer.berlios.de/projects/thewml/

4. Run and configure CPAN (see - http://sial.org/howto/perl/life-with-cpan/ )
and type:

    $ export PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT=1
    $ perl -MCPAN -e 'install Task::Sites::ShlomiFish'

Or if you have CPANPLUS installed:

    $ export PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT=1
    $ perl -MCPANPLUS -e 'install Task::Sites::ShlomiFish'

5. Install Latemp:

    $ svn co http://svn.berlios.de/svnroot/repos/web-cpan/latemp/trunk/
    $ cd trunk/installer
    $ mkdir -p "$HOME/apps/latemp"
    $ scons PREFIX="$HOME/apps/latemp/" install
    $ cd ../support-headers
    $ perl install.pl

6. Add Latemp to the beginning of your path:

    $ PATH="$HOME/apps/latemp/bin:$PATH"

7. Install the latest version of Quad-Pres from:

    $ svn co http://svn.berlios.de/svnroot/repos/quad-pres/quad-pres/trunk/installer
    $ cd installer

See its INSTALL file. Put a working quadp executable in your shell's PATH.

8. 
    $ svn co https://seed1.projectlocker.com/shlomif/svn/wml-affiliations/trunk/
        - Username: svn@shlomifish.org 
        - Password: 123456
    $ cd trunk/wml
    $ bash Install.bash

9.
    $ svn co http://svn.berlios.de/svnroot/repos/thewml/extended-apis/trunk/
    $ cd trunk/xhtml/1.x/
    $ bash Install.bash

10. Install inkscape ( http://inkscape.org/ ) and put its executable in 
the path.

11. Install jing and put it in the path:
    - http://www.thaiopensource.com/relaxng/jing.html

12. Install Apache FOP and put it in the path:
    - http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/

13. Install pngcrush and put it in the path:
    - http://pmt.sourceforge.net/pngcrush/

14. Do the following to build the site, after all dependencies were installed:

    $ svn co https://seed1.projectlocker.com/shlomif/svn/homepage/trunk
        - Username: svn@shlomifish.org 
        - Password: 123456
    $ cd trunk
    $ ./gen-helpers.pl
        ( Ignore the make warning. )
    $ make