[SCM] Debian Live manual branch, master, updated. 8451d3c1e3f59d90f0db284cf4b870b86011e946

[Chris Lamb]

The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
commit e2a9ae5fa9084e6f8922625ba33371ea94b84018
Author: Chris Lamb <chris at chris-lamb.co.uk>
Date:   Thu May 15 02:10:34 2008 +0100

    Add section on installing live-helper from Git
    
    Signed-off-by: Chris Lamb <chris at chris-lamb.co.uk>

diff --git a/chapters/installation.xml b/chapters/installation.xml
index 070ec80..001d37c 100644
--- a/chapters/installation.xml
+++ b/chapters/installation.xml
@@ -48,7 +48,36 @@
 </sect1>
 
 <sect1>
-<title>From source</title>
+ <title>From source</title>
+
+ <para>&live-helper; is developed using the Git revision control system. On Debian systems, this is provided by the <computeroutput>git-core</computeroutput> package. To check out the latest code, execute:</para>
+
+<screen>
+ % git clone git://git.debian.net/git/live-helper.git
+</screen>
+
+ <para>You can build and install your own Debian package by executing:</para>
+
+<screen>
+ % cd live-helper
+ % dpkg-buildpackage -uc -us -rfakeroot
+ % cd ..
+ $ dpkg -i live-helper*.deb
+</screen>
+
+ <para>Since &live-helper; version 1.0~a38-1, you can use local version of &live-helper; without installation:</para>
+
+<screen>
+ % live-helper/helpers/lh_local
+</screen>
+
+ <para>Subsequent calls to <filename>lh_</filename>-prefixed helpers in that shell environment will then use the version located in the directory you executed <filename>lh_local</filename> from.</para>
+
+ <para>You can also install &live-helper; directly to your system by executing:</para>
+
+<screen>
+ $ make install
+</screen>
 </sect1>
 
 <sect1>

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