X-Git-Url: https://code.citadel.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=appimage%2FREADME.txt;h=a2949fb366dd567d7b26e7d4f9b34e41a334a0b7;hb=a5b89af01e00b8e95937ac60502cff4a34a710de;hp=5443d2a9896ba2e2d44146ffd9b184bed591cb01;hpb=8ef23063d53cfb72e242504d18014d66fb6be821;p=citadel.git diff --git a/appimage/README.txt b/appimage/README.txt index 5443d2a98..a2949fb36 100644 --- a/appimage/README.txt +++ b/appimage/README.txt @@ -6,18 +6,17 @@ The tooling in this directory can be used to build an AppImage, the entire Citad distributed as a single binary file. Visit https://appimage.org/ to learn more about the AppImage format and how it works. -Again, do NOT try to run this on your production machine. For that matter, don't try to -run it on anything other than a dedicated build host. It may ERASE data you intended to -keep. +Again, do NOT try to build this on your production machine. For that matter, don't try +to build it on anything other than a dedicated build host. It may ERASE data you +intended to keep. If you're an end user you shouldn't have any need to do this at all. The whole point of this is that we can supply ready-to-run binaries that will run on any Linux/Linux system without modification or dependencies. If you are an end user, stop here, go download the binary package, and use it. Enjoy it and have fun. -Still with us? Then you must be a new member of the Citadel team and you're packaging -the software for a new architecture or something. So here's what you have to do to build -the binary: +Still with us? Then you must be a new member of the build team. So here's what you have +to do to build the binary: 1. Download the Citadel source tree (if you're reading this, you've already done that). 2. Install all system dependencies. The same ones needed for Easy Install are fine. @@ -40,4 +39,4 @@ binary should be able to run. The distribution does not matter -- for example, binary built on Debian should run fine on Ubuntu or Red Hat or whatever -- but the C library and other very base system libraries are only upward compatible, not downward compatible. For example, at the time of this writing, I am building on Ubuntu 16 and -it's early 2021. +it's early 2021.