Dependencies
------------
-Notmuch depends on three libraries: Xapian, GMime 2.4 or 2.6, and
-Talloc which are each described below:
+Notmuch depends on four libraries: Xapian, GMime 2.4 or 2.6,
+Talloc, and zlib which are each described below:
Xapian
------
Talloc is available from http://talloc.samba.org/
+ zlib
+ ----
+
+ zlib is an extremely popular compression library. It is used
+ by Xapian, so if you installed that you will already have
+ zlib. You may need to install the zlib headers separately.
+
+ Notmuch needs the transparent write feature of zlib introduced
+ in version 1.2.5.2 (Dec. 2011).
+
+ zlib is available from http://zlib.net
+
+Building Documentation
+----------------------
+
+By default the documentation for notmuch is built using sphinx.
+
+Sphinx is available from www.sphinx-doc.org.
+
+If you prefer, you can build the man pages using rst2man, from the
+python docutils package. See doc/INSTALL for details.
+
+
+Installing Dependencies from Packages
+-------------------------------------
+
On a modern, package-based operating system you can install all of the
dependencies with a simple simple command line. For example:
For Debian and similar:
- sudo apt-get install libxapian-dev libgmime-2.6-dev libtalloc-dev
+ sudo apt-get install libxapian-dev libgmime-2.6-dev libtalloc-dev zlib1g-dev python-sphinx
For Fedora and similar:
- sudo yum install xapian-core-devel gmime-devel libtalloc-devel
+ sudo yum install xapian-core-devel gmime-devel libtalloc-devel zlib-devel python-sphinx
On other systems, a similar command can be used, but the details of
the package names may be different.
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