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authorSam Thursfield <sam.thursfield@codethink.co.uk>2018-01-23 11:52:20 +0000
committerSam Thursfield <sam.thursfield@codethink.co.uk>2018-01-23 11:52:20 +0000
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doc/source/install.rst: Clarify install instructionssam/install-tweaks
This should address two issues. First, the Docker instructions are on a different page now. Second, it may not be clear that users need to follow the entire page (including "User installation with pip") in order to have BuildStream installed.
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BuildStream on your host
========================
Until BuildStream is available in your distro, there are a few hoops to jump
-through to get started.
+through to get started. Follow the instructions below to install BuildStream's
+dependencies on your system and install BuildStream itself from source.
-If your system cannot provide the base system requirements for BuildStream,
-then we have some instructions below which can get you started using BuildStream
-within a Docker container.
+Alternately, we have instructions on running BuildStream from a
+:ref:`prebuilt Docker container <docker>`.
System requirements