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-============
-Installation
-============
-
-Basically you should just run
-
-python setup.py install
-
-
-
-Notes:
-
-1) On some distributions, boost libraries are renamed to have "-mt" at the end (boost_thread_mt instead of boost_thread, for example), the "mt" indicating "multithreaded". In some cases it appears the distros lack symlinks to connect things. The solution is to either add symlinks from the short names to those with "-mt", or to alter setup.py to look for the "-mt" versions.
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+Deluge BitTorrent Client
+
+Authors:
+	Zach Tibbitts, aka zachtib
+	Alon Zakai, aka kripkenstein
+
+Homepage: http://deluge-torrent.org
+
+==========================
+Installation Instructions:
+==========================
+
+First, make sure you have the proper bulid
+dependencies installed.  On a normal Debian
+or Ubuntu system, those dependencies are:
+
+python-all-dev
+python-all
+python-support
+libboost-dev
+libboost-thread-dev
+libboost-date-time-dev
+libboost-filesystem-dev
+libboost-serialization-dev
+libboost-program-options-dev
+libboost-regex-dev
+zlib1g-dev
+
+But the names of the packages may vary
+depending on your OS / distro.
+
+Once you have the needed libraries installed,
+build Deluge by running:
+
+	python setup.py build
+
+You shouldn't get any errors.  Then run, as 
+root (or by using sudo): 
+
+	python setup.py install
+
+and Deluge will be installed.
+
+You can then run Deluge by executing:
+
+	deluge
+	
+Notes:
+
+1) On some distributions, boost libraries are 
+ renamed to have "-mt" at the end (boost_thread_mt
+ instead of boost_thread, for example), the "mt" 
+ indicating "multithreaded". In some cases it 
+ appears the distros lack symlinks to connect 
+ things. The solution is to either add symlinks 
+ from the short names to those with "-mt", or to 
+ alter setup.py to look for the "-mt" versions.