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README.md

@@ -13,22 +13,84 @@ relatively modern piece of it.  As such they should be preserved as they are.
 
 ## Developer note
 
-To use the scripts on a server other than Ivan's, you'll want to export
-the shell variable A2SERVER_SCRIPT_URL to the base URL of this repository
-on your server.  The base-URL should be slash-terminated.  You can then run
-the following snippet:
+To use the scripts on your own server, including your local machine:
 
 ~~~ bash
-wget -O a2server-setup ${A2SERVER_SCRIPT_URL}setup/index.txt; source a2server-setup
+export A2SERVER_SCRIPT_URL=http://yoururl.com/
 ~~~
 
-A simple method for installing from a local subdirectory is to `cd` to it and
-then type `python -m SimpleHTTPServer`. Then
-`export A2SERVER_SCRIPT_URL="http://localhost:8000/"`
-or use the IP address of the host machine on your LAN instead of localhost.
+To prevent needing to recompile various packages from source code during
+installation, a number of precompiled binary files are downloaded for Raspbian,
+Debian-x86, and Debian-amd64. If you wish to host these on your own server:
+
+~~~ bash
+export A2SERVER_BINARY_URL=http://yoururl.com/files/
+~~~
+
+You do not need to use a subdirectory called "files", or the same server, but
+that's the normal arrangement. The precompiled packages are available here:
+`http://ivanx.com/a2server/files/dist/a2serverbinaries.tar.gz`
+
+Several Apple II third-party binaries are downloaded during installation, as
+well as third-party source code if precompiled binaries are unavailable or
+you don't wish to use them. If you want these external dependencies locally
+during development, they need to go into a folder called "external" in
+the binaries URL, and that needs to contain folders called "appleii" and
+"source". To download all of these external packages, download and run the
+shell script at
+`http://ivanx.com/a2server/files/dist/getexternal.sh`.
+
+Once you have those:
+
+~~~ bash
+export A2SERVER_NO_EXTERNAL=1
+~~~
+
+You may want to put the above exports into ~/.bashrc or ~/.bash_profile.
+
+If you want to host scripts locally installed on your own machine or another
+computer on your LAN, type the following, and export "http://localhost:8000/"
+or "http://lan.ip.address:8000/" for the above URL's.
+
+~~~
+python -m SimpleHTTPServer
+~~~
+
+Once you're set, you can then run the following snippet to install A2SERVER:
+
+~~~
+wget -O setup ${A2SERVER_SCRIPT_URL}setup/index.txt; source setup
+~~~
+
+
+Offline install:
+
+Using locally hosted binaries and external dependencies, it's possible to
+install completely offline if dependent packages have been installed.
+
+If precompiled binaries are available, on Wheezy:
+
+~~~
+sudo apt-get -y install unzip libgnustep-base1.22 libdb5.1 libgcrypt11 libssl1.0.0 attr fuse libglib2.0-0 libattr1 libfuse2
+~~~
+
+If precompiled binaries are available, on Jessie:
+
+~~~
+sudo apt-get -y install unzip unar libdb5.3 libgcrypt20 libssl1.0.0 attr fuse libglib2.0-0 libattr1 libfuse2
+~~~
+
+If precompiled binaries are not available, on Wheezy:
+
+~~~
+sudo apt-get -y install unzip build-essential zlib1g-dev libgnustep-base-dev libz-dev libbz2-dev libssl-dev libicu-dev libdb5.1-dev libgcrypt11-dev libglib2.0-dev libattr1-dev libfuse-dev
+~~~
+
+If precompiled binaries are not available, on Jessie:
+
+~~~
+sudo apt-get -y install unzip unar build-essential zlib1g-dev unzip libssl-dev libdb5.3-dev libgcrypt11-dev libglib2.0-dev libattr1-dev libfuse-dev
+~~~
 
-You should probably export A2SERVER_SCRIPT_URL in your .bashrc or whatever
-file configures your development environment.  Also be advised that as of
-version 1.24 of A2SERVER, you must use the snippet above.
 
 [Ivan's site]: http://appleii.ivanx.com/a2server/