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+Xournal Installation instructions
+=================================
+
+Binary installer:
+-----------------
+
+The tarball includes an executable file for Linux IA32. If your setup
+is sufficiently standard, you might be able to use the binary installer
+script, "install-binary".
+
+Either run this script as root, to install xournal in /usr/local/bin
+(and the dependencies in /usr/local/share/xournal), or as any user, to
+install xournal in your home directory.
+
+You will still need to have gtk+ 2.4 or later and the other required
+libraries installed on your system (see below).
+
+Otherwise, read on for compilation and installation instructions.
+
+
+Dependencies:
+-------------
+
+Required packages and libraries:
+
+* TO COMPILE xournal:
+
+- autoconf, automake (to generate the makefiles)
+- gtk+ 2.4 or later development packages (2.6 recommended)
+ (package gtk2-devel and its dependencies)
+- libgnomecanvas 2.4 or later development packages
+ (package libgnomecanvas-devel and its dependencies)
+- libgnomeprint and libgnomeprintui 2.2 development packages
+ (packages libgnomeprint22-devel, libgnomeprintui22-devel, and dependencies)
+
+* TO RUN xournal:
+
+- gtk+ 2.4 or later (2.6 recommended)
+ (package gtk2 and dependencies)
+- libgnomecanvas 2.4 or later
+ (package libgnomecanvas and dependencies)
+- libgnomeprint and libgnomeprintui 2.2 or later
+ (packages libgnomeprint22, libgnomeprintui22, and dependencies)
+
+* OTHER:
+
+- xpdf (more precisely, pdftoppm) is required for PDF file annotation
+- ghostscript (optional: used to import PS/PDF files as bitmap backgrounds)
+
+
+Compilation and installation:
+-----------------------------
+
+Installation in /usr/local:
+
+./autogen.sh
+make
+(as root) make install
+
+
+Installation in $HOME:
+
+./autogen.sh
+./configure --prefix=$HOME
+make
+make install