Merge pull request #455 from tpltnt/readme-subsections

additional subsections to make installation instructions less confusing
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@ -15,6 +15,11 @@ http://tahoe-lafs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ .
INSTALLING
==========
There are three ways to install Tahoe-LAFS.
using OS packages
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Pre-packaged versions are available for several operating systems:
* Debian and Ubuntu users can ``apt-get install tahoe-lafs``
@ -22,6 +27,9 @@ Pre-packaged versions are available for several operating systems:
available, see `OSPackages`_ for details
* `Mac`_ and Windows installers are in development.
via pip
^^^^^^^
If you don't use an OS package, you'll need Python 2.7 and `pip`_. You may
also need a C compiler, and the development headers for python, libffi, and
OpenSSL. On a Debian-like system, use ``apt-get install build-essential
@ -32,6 +40,8 @@ Then, to install the most recent release, just run:
* ``pip install tahoe-lafs``
from source
^^^^^^^^^^^
To install from source (either so you can hack on it, or just to run
pre-release code), you should create a virtualenv and install into that: