Branch: refs/heads/master Author: Enrico Tröger enrico.troeger@uvena.de Committer: Colomban Wendling ban@herbesfolles.org Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2016 14:10:57 UTC Commit: 24c8d4c3ebf8086a209ec6820a7b51a5dcb70d00 https://github.com/geany/geany/commit/24c8d4c3ebf8086a209ec6820a7b51a5dcb70d...
Log Message: ----------- README: Further improve installation instructions
Modified Paths: -------------- README
Modified: README 41 lines changed, 27 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) =================================================================== @@ -28,8 +28,27 @@ The basic features of Geany are: - extensibility through plugins
+Installation from distribution packages +--------------------------------------- +Using distribution packages on Linux, BSD and similar distributions +is the easiest and recommended way. This way you will also benefit +from automatic Geany updates by the package manager of the distribution. + +Packages are available for most distributions including Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu +and many more. + + +Installation on Mac OSX and Windows +----------------------------------- +Prebuilt binary packages for Mac OSX and Windows can be found on +http://www.geany.org + + +Installation from sources +------------------------- + Requirements ------------- +++++++++++++ For compiling Geany yourself, you will need the GTK2 (>= 2.24) or GTK3 libraries and header files. You will also need its dependency libraries and header files, such as Pango, Glib and ATK. All these files are @@ -40,9 +59,6 @@ compiler is also needed for the required Scintilla library included. The GNU versions of these tools are recommended.
-Installation ------------- - To build the user manual you need *rst2html* from Docutils. A pre-built version of the manual is available in distribution tarballs and will be used as fallback if *rst2html* is missing. When building from Git however, that @@ -52,6 +68,13 @@ You can explicitly disable building the user manual using the installing a local version of the user manual, and Geany will then try and open the online version instead when requested.
+ +.. note:: + Building Geany from source on Mac OSX and Windows is more complicated + and is out of scope of this document. For more information on + building instructions for these platforms, please check the wiki + at http://wiki.geany.org/howtos/. + Installing from a Git clone +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
@@ -96,16 +119,6 @@ The most important option probably is ``-c`` or ``--config``, where you can specify an alternate configuration directory.
-Windows -------- -Geany runs also under Windows. To download the binary with all necessary -files, visit Geany's homepage. However, the Windows version has a few -limitations: - -- embedded terminal emulation (VTE) is missing -- Windows Vista or newer is required - - License ------- Geany is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License
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