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-Installation:
+Prerequisites.
 =============
 
-As with any autoconfiguring GNU software, installation is as easy as this:
+ANSI-compliant C++ compiler. GNU C++ compiler (version >= 3.4) is recommend.
+Non-GNU compilers might not work at the moment.
+
+GNU multiprecision library (http://gmplib.org), version > 4.0 (older 3.x
+versions might work too).
+
+[Optional] To build CLN documentation texinfo and TeX are necessary.
+
+If you install CLN from git, you also need 
+
+git itself (http://git.or.cz), version >= 1.5.0
+GNU autoconf (http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf), version >= 2.59
+GNU libtool  (http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool), version >= 1.5
+GNU automake (http://www.gnu.org/software/automake), version >= 1.8
+
+Installation from a source .tar.bz2 distribution.
+================================================
 
 $ ./configure
 $ make
 $ make check
-$ make install
+[ become root if necessary ]
+# make install
+
+To build the manual in PDF, HTML, or PostScript formats, use one of
+
+$ make pdf
+$ make html
+$ make ps
+
+To compile and run CLN's test suite and check whether the library was
+compiled correctly you can use
+
+$ make check
+
+The "configure" script can be given a number of options to enable and
+disable various features. Most useful ones are:
+
+--prefix=DIR
+
+Install CLN into the directory DIR (default: /usr/local).
+
+--with-gmp
+
+Use GNU multiprecision library (default: yes, if available)
+
+--disable-static
+
+Don't build static version of CLN library. This option is useful if
+want to reduce the build time (and you don't need the static library).
+
+For a complete list, run:
+
+$ ./configure --help
+
+
+Installation from git.
+=====================
+
+1. Download the code.
+
+Initial download:
+
+$ git clone git://ffmssmsc.jinr.ru:443/varg/cln.git cln
+
+Later on you can update your copy with
+
+$ git pull
+
+2. Make sure all required software is installed. This is *really*
+important step. If some package is missing, the `configure' script might
+be misgenerated,
+
+3. Run
+
+$ autoreconf -iv
+
+to generate the `configure' script, and proceed in a standard way, i.e.
+
+$ ./configure
+$ make
+[become root if necessary]
+# make install
 
-You need GNU make. On HP-UX, you also need GNU sed.
+CLN is known to work with:
+=========================
 
-Known to work with:
   - Linux/x86, gcc-3.x, gcc-4.[0-2].x
   - Linux/x86_64, gcc-3.[3-4], gcc-4.[0-2].x, gcc-4.3.0
   - Linux/ia64, gcc-3.[2-4], gcc-4.[0-2].x