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| author | Vedang Manerikar <ved.manerikar@gmail.com> | 2022-02-13 23:53:32 +0530 |
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| committer | Vedang Manerikar <ved.manerikar@gmail.com> | 2022-02-13 23:53:32 +0530 |
| commit | 013d8c5316e6635db3a7e62feac4d3cd9ed4a396 (patch) | |
| tree | 15b1305a67c5875ae8b19561619e199637c9dbb5 | |
| parent | bfef2384809ea4b4b12bba1cbe7196a10cc5a8c9 (diff) | |
Minor improvements in the installation section of the README
This should ideally have been part of the previous section, but well,
we can't have Gerrit everywhere unfortunately.
| -rw-r--r-- | README.org | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
@@ -44,7 +44,11 @@ You should not require any manual changes. The documentation below is *only* if :CREATED: [2021-12-29 Wed 18:34] :ID: 8ce3cf4e-d186-4de1-a40e-f41063068ab0 :END: -You'll need GNU Emacs \ge 26.1 and some form of a GNU/Linux OS. Other operating systems are not officially supported, but ~pdf-tools~ is known to work on many of them. Similarly, package-managers are not officially supported, but ~pdf-tools~ is known to be available on some of them. See the links below, and in the [[id:fb5cef15-fed4-4dec-a443-52f7c00c7831][Installing the ~epdfinfo~ server from package managers]] section for more details. +If you install ~pdf-tools~ via NonGNU ELPA or MELPA, you don't need to worry about this separate server installation at all. However, if you have a non-standard installation, please refer to the links below for installing ~epdfinfo~ server prerequisites. + +Note: You'll need GNU Emacs \ge 26.1 and some form of a GNU/Linux OS. Other operating systems are not officially supported, but ~pdf-tools~ is known to work on many of them. + +Similarly, package-managers are not officially supported, but ~pdf-tools~ is known to be available on some of them. See the section on [[id:fb5cef15-fed4-4dec-a443-52f7c00c7831][Installing the ~epdfinfo~ server from package managers]] to avoid manual installation of server / server prerequisites *** Installing ~epdfinfo~ Server Prerequisites on a Debian-based system :PROPERTIES: @@ -154,6 +158,7 @@ The pre-built binaries will work with native (not Cygwin) Windows builds of Emac :CREATED: [2021-12-29 Wed 18:34] :ID: e305cd0a-e798-4c2b-af27-21bcd936c1c9 :END: +If you install ~pdf-tools~ via NonGNU ELPA or MELPA, you don't need to worry about this separate server installation at all. However, if you have a non-standard installation, please refer to the links below for installing ~epdfinfo~. *** Compiling and Installing the ~epdfinfo~ server from source on Linux :PROPERTIES: :CREATED: [2022-02-13 Sun 23:11] |