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+==== Installing Pizza ====
+
+For Pizza to work, you need a running mailservice (either server, smarthost or local) using "mailx" from s-nail (provided by, i.e., heirloom-mailx in debian, s-nail in arch) . Install Pizza running the following commands as root after cd'ing into the git base directory:
+
+install -m 755 src/pizza /usr/local/bin/pizza
+mkdir -p /usr/local/share/pizza
+install -m 644 assets/pizza assets/heart /usr/local/share/pizza/
+
+If you want to use another directory than "/usr/local/share/pizza/" for the ASCII-Art-Pics, you have to set the "PIZZAINC"-Variable accordingly.
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diff --git a/README b/README
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@@ -2,7 +2,8 @@ Ever wanted to share a pizza (or else) to anyone who offers a service, for examp
 
 With PIZZA, you may now send pizza (or else) to any mailaddress out there!
 
-Usage: You need a running mail-service on your system (i.e. a postfix configured to use a smarthost).
+Usage: See INSTTALL for prerequisites.
+
 To run "pizza" from the bare repository, cd into the src directory and run
 
 export PIZZAINC="../assets"; ./pizza