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README: Further improve installation instructions

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@ -28,8 +28,27 @@ The basic features of Geany are:
- extensibility through plugins - 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 Requirements
------------ ++++++++++++
For compiling Geany yourself, you will need the GTK2 (>= 2.24) or For compiling Geany yourself, you will need the GTK2 (>= 2.24) or
GTK3 libraries and header files. You will also need its dependency libraries 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 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. GNU versions of these tools are recommended.
Installation
------------
To build the user manual you need *rst2html* from Docutils. A pre-built 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 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 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 installing a local version of the user manual, and Geany will then try
and open the online version instead when requested. 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 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. 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 License
------- -------
Geany is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License Geany is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License