diff --git a/docs/website/installation.php b/docs/website/installation.php index 41de1c8a..025b1e0f 100644 --- a/docs/website/installation.php +++ b/docs/website/installation.php @@ -4,18 +4,40 @@ ?>
Ideally you will be running a recent Debian release and will be able to add:
deb http://debian.mcmillan.net.nz/debian unstable awm-
to your /etc/apt/sources.list. Once you have done that you -can use apt-get or synaptic or some other equivalent package -manager to fetch and install rscds and all the dependencies.
+to your /etc/apt/sources.list. Once you have done that you
+can use apt-get or synaptic or some other equivalent package
+manager to fetch and install rscds and all the dependencies.
Skip to the "Database Setup" part if you have done that already.
+You will need to download the latest versions of the rscds and awl packages
+from the sourceforge download page for rscds.
You will need to untar these. Preferably you will untar them from within the "/usr/share" directory and everything
+will be in it's expected location (well, except the docs, but it will at least be tidy and everything will be in one place).
I would like to hear from non-Debian users regarding things I might have missed, or things you have +learned about the system, so please post a message on the forums, or +e-mail me or something.
+ +I would really like to hear from you. As far as I can see there is no reason why this +can't all work on FreeBSD, Microsoft Windows, VMS, Mac OS or whatever else, as long as the +pre-requisites are able to be installed.
+For Unix and unix-like operating systems the "Other Linux Users" instructions are likely +to be reasonably close to what you need. For other systems everything will need some +adjustment, and in particular some of the path name and shell expectations coded into +the database creation scripts are likely to need love.
+I'm available to answer questions, anyway :-)
+RSCDS depends on a number of things. Firstly, it depends