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Update readme

Updated the main README file to include a list of dependencies.

Forgot to update my e-mail address, so I closed Merge Request !44 first.

See merge request !45
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For documentation, please see the docs directory. For documentation, please see the docs directory.
Alternatively, visit https://f-droid.org/manual/ Alternatively, visit [https://f-droid.org/manual/](https://f-droid.org/manual/)
Installing Installing
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The easiest way to install the fdroidserver tools is to use virtualenv and pip The easiest way to install the `fdroidserver` tools is on Debian, Ubuntu, Mint
(if you are Debian/Ubuntu/Mint/etc, you can first try installing using or other Debian based distributions, you can install using:
`apt-get install fdroidserver`). First, make sure you have virtualenv
installed, it should be included in your OS's Python distribution or via other sudo add-apt-repository ppa:guardianproject/ppa
mechanisms like dnf/yum/pacman/emerge/Fink/MacPorts/Brew. Then here's how to sudo apt-get update
install: sudo apt-get install fdroidserver
But you can also use `virtualenv` and `pip` python tools that also work on other
distributions.
First, make sure you have installed the python header files, virtualenv and pip.
They should be included in your OS's default package manager or you can install
them via other mechanisms like Brew/dnf/pacman/emerge/Fink/MacPorts.
For Debian based distributions:
apt-get install python-dev python-pip python-virtualenv
Then here's how to install:
git clone https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroidserver.git git clone https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroidserver.git
cd fdroidserver cd fdroidserver
virtualenv env/ virtualenv env/
. env/bin/activate source env/bin/activate
pip install -e . pip install -e .
python2 setup.py install python2 setup.py install