Tutorial Installation Instructions.. take 2

Jon Lapham lapham at extracta.com.br
Fri Jun 13 17:32:07 CDT 2003


Derek et al.-

How does this look (see below).  It points the user to the web site 
and/or the README file, the detailed instructions have been removed.

I still think the situation is sub-optimal in terms of documentation for 
gnucash.  What I mean is that it seems like we have stuff on the web 
site, in the text files in the main source body (README, docs/), and in 
gnucash-docs package.  Because of this, often you get different 
information depending on where you look.  It would be nice if we could 
*build* the README file, and the web site... from gnucash-docs...

But, that is not something I want to deal with for now.  For now, I just 
want online help that is complete.  :)

-Jon

   <sect1 id="install1">
    <title>Installation</title>
     <para>
Installation of GnuCash can be simple, as most modern linux 
distributions come with gnucash precompiled and ready to go.  In fact, 
most likely, GnuCash is already installed.  If you do not have GnuCash 
installed, the simplest method for installing it is to insert the 
installation CD that came with your distribution and follow the 
instructions.
     </para>
     <para>
The <ulink url="http://www.gnucash.org/pub/gnucash/"><citetitle>gnucash 
web site</citetitle></ulink> contains detailed instructions on how to 
install GnuCash in the event your current distribution does not include 
it, or if you want to install a different version.  You can also read 
the README file in the source code.
     </para>
   </sect1>

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