X-Git-Url: https://code.citadel.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=appimage%2FREADME.txt;h=ec936957775b983be1cc64a18885bc75da268deb;hb=9024ab8bcf9a6d0db76a7b019029764cedefa73d;hp=418c402a1411524807b29a50724291fe2d116e1e;hpb=3db56a28258a429c1425b74246e7aa838a1524ca;p=citadel.git diff --git a/appimage/README.txt b/appimage/README.txt index 418c402a1..ec9369577 100644 --- a/appimage/README.txt +++ b/appimage/README.txt @@ -7,17 +7,16 @@ distributed as a single binary file. Visit https://appimage.org/ to learn more 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 will ERASE /usr/local/citadel -and /usr/local/webcit during the build process. +run 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. @@ -39,5 +38,5 @@ You should be running this build on the OLDEST version of Linux/Linux on which y binary should be able to run. The distribution does not matter -- for example, a 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 14 and -it's early 2021. +compatible. For example, at the time of this writing, I am building on Ubuntu 16 and +it's early 2021.