From af65924a95022120816f78f45983367b58bf5148 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Adrian Cochrane Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2018 13:45:35 +1200 Subject: [PATCH] Document how to install this app and what that gives you. 8min. --- README.md | 14 ++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index c6e6f14..dddf3b7 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -5,3 +5,17 @@ Android. It allows you to compose and publish posts to https://write.as/. For a UI toolkit it uses GTK (where some systems may slightly prefer, say, Qt), but do to the simplicity of the app this shouldn't be much of a problem to anyone. + +## Installation +Write.as GTK uses the Meson/Ninja build system, and as such you can install it on +any FreeDesktop.Org compatible system using: + + mkdir build + cd build + meson .. + ninja + sudo ninja install + +This will install the executable file and the metadata required to integrate with +those desktops. It also installs metadata to be collected by package repositories +that integrate certain package managers for richer presentation of apps.