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