Explain current installation process in README.md (i.e. "make install").

[bup.git] / README.md

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@@ -92,18 +92,32 @@ From source
         git clone git://github.com/apenwarr/bup
 
  - Install the needed python libraries (including the development
-   libraries).  On Debian or Ubuntu, this is usually:
-        apt-get install python2.6-dev python-fuse
-        apt-get install python-pyxattr python-pylibacl
-        
-    Substitute python2.5-dev or python2.4-dev if you have an older system.
-    
-    Or on newer Debian/Ubuntu versions, you can try this:
+   libraries).
+
+   On Debian/Ubuntu this is usually sufficient (run as root):
+
+            apt-get install python2.6-dev python-fuse
+            apt-get install python-pyxattr python-pylibacl
+
+   Substitute python2.5-dev or python2.4-dev if you have an older
+   system.  Alternately, on newer Debian/Ubuntu versions, you can try
+   this:
     
-        apt-get build-dep bup
-       
+            apt-get build-dep bup
+
+   On CentOS (for CentOS 6, at least), this should be sufficient (run
+   as root):
+
+            yum groupinstall "Development Tools"
+            yum install python python-dev
+            yum install fuse-python pyxattr pylibacl
+            yum install perl-Time-HiRes
+
+   In addition to the default CentOS repositories, you may need to add
+   RPMForge (for fuse-python) and EPEL (for pyxattr and pylibacl).
+
  - Build the python module and symlinks:
- 
+
         make
        
  - Run the tests:
@@ -113,6 +127,15 @@ From source
     (The tests should pass.  If they don't pass for you, stop here and send
     me an email.)
 
+ - You can install bup via "make install", and override the default
+   destination with DESTDIR and PREFIX.
+
+   Files are normally installed to "$DESTDIR/$PREFIX" where DESTDIR is
+   empty by default, and PREFIX is set to /usr.  So if you wanted to
+   install bup to /opt/bup, you might do something like this:
+
+        make install DESTDIR=/opt/bup PREFIX=''
+
 
 From binary packages
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