Enhanced INSTALL section of README

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2008-04-26 Curtis Gedak <gedakc@gmail.com>
* README: Enhanced INSTALL information
- Closes GParted bug 529625
2008-04-25 Curtis Gedak <gedakc@gmail.com>
* README: Updated to better align with GNU coding standards
- Closes GParted bug 529625
2008-04-23 Curtis Gedak <gedakc@gmail.com>

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systems, reorganizing disk usage, and mirroring one partition with
another (disk imaging).
Gparted uses GNU libparted to detect and manipulate devices and
partition tables. Several optional packages provide additional file
system support. Optional packages include:
e2fsprogs, dosfstools, mtools, hfsutils, jfsutils,
ntfsprogs, reiser4progs, reiserfsprogs, and xfsprogs.
Gparted can also be used with storage devices other than hard disks,
such as USB flash drives, and memory cards.
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INSTALL
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Installation instructions can be found in the file:
INSTALL
a. Pre-built Binary
Many GNU/Linux distributions already provide a pre-built binary
package for GParted. Instructions on how to install GParted on
some distributions is given below:
(K)Ubuntu
---------
sudo apt-get install gparted
Fedora
------
su -
yum install gparted
b. Building from Source
Building Gparted from source requires that several dependencies are
installed. These include:
g++
e2fsprogs
parted
gtkmm24
gettext
On (K)Ubuntu, these dependencies may be obtained by running the
following command;
sudo apt-get install build-essential e2fsprogs uuid uuid-dev \
gnome-common libparted-dev libgtkmm-2.4-dev
On Fedora, you will need to run (as root);
yum install gtkmm24-devel parted-devel e2fsprogs-devel gettext \
perl(XML::Parser) desktop-file-utils
The INSTALL file contains further GNU installation instructions.
COPYING
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DISTRIBUTION NOTES
------------------
The following notes are intended to assist GNU/Linux distribution
packagers. More information on GParted features can be found at:
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/features.php
Gparted uses GNU libparted to detect and manipulate devices and partition
tables. Several optional packages provide additional file system support.
Optional packages include:
GParted Dependencies:
libparted
libuuid
libdl
libgtkmm
Optional (suggested) packages:
e2fsprogs
dosfstools
mtools