-For those who hate reading docs:
+/*********************************************************************
+ *
+ * File : $Source: /cvsroot/ijbswa/current/doc/source/install.sgml,v $
+ *
+ * Purpose : INSTALL file to help with installing from source.
+ *
+ * Copyright : Written by and Copyright (C) 2001,2002 the SourceForge
+ * Privoxy team. http://www.privoxy.org/
+ *
+ * Based on the Internet Junkbuster originally written
+ * by and Copyright (C) 1997 Anonymous Coders and
+ * Junkbusters Corporation. http://www.junkbusters.com
+ *
+ * This program is free software; you can redistribute it
+ * and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General
+ * Public License as published by the Free Software
+ * Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at
+ * your option) any later version.
+ *
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will
+ * be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the
+ * implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
+ * PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public
+ * License for more details.
+ *
+ * The GNU General Public License should be included with
+ * this file. If not, you can view it at
+ * http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
+ * or write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59
+ * Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
+ *
+ *********************************************************************/
+
-For a clean build you **MUST** run autoheader && autoconf && ./configure
-before you run make.
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-Please refer to README and the doc subdirectory for more info.
+To build Privoxy from source, autoconf, GNU make (gmake), and, of course, a C
+compiler like gcc are required.
+
+When building from a source tarball (either release version or nightly CVS
+tarball), first unpack the source:
+
+ tar xzvf privoxy-3.1.1-beta-src* [.tgz or .tar.gz]
+ cd privoxy-3.1.1-beta
+
+For retrieving the current CVS sources, you'll need CVS installed. Note that
+sources from CVS are development quality, and may not be stable, or well
+tested. To download CVS source:
+
+ cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.ijbswa.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/ijbswa login
+ cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.ijbswa.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/ijbswa co current
+ cd current
+
+This will create a directory named current/, which will contain the source
+tree.
+
+You can also check out any Privoxy "branch", just exchange the current name
+with the wanted branch name (Example: v_3_0_branch for the 3.0 cvs tree).
+
+It is also strongly recommended to not run Privoxy as root, and instead it is
+suggested to create a "privoxy" user and group for this purpose. See your local
+documentation for the correct command line to do this.
+
+/etc/passwd might then look like:
+
+ privoxy:*:7777:7777:privoxy proxy:/no/home:/no/shell
+
+And then /etc/group, like:
+
+ privoxy:*:7777:privoxy
+
+Some binary packages may do this for you.
+
+Then, to build from either unpacked tarball or CVS source:
+
+ autoheader
+ autoconf
+ ./configure # (--help to see options)
+ make # (the make from gnu, gmake for *BSD)
+ su
+ make -n install # (to see where all the files will go)
+ make install # (to really install)
+
+If you have GNU make, you can have the first four steps automatically done for
+you by just typing:
+
+ make
+
+in the freshly downloaded or unpacked source directory.
+
+WARNING: If installing as root, the install will fail unless another user is
+specified. configure accepts --with-user and --with-group options for setting
+user and group ownership of the configuration files (which need to be writable
+by the daemon). The specified user must already exist. Or if there is already a
+privoxy user on the system, and no user was specified during configure, make
+install then will use the privoxy user. When starting Privoxy, it should be run
+as this same user.
+
+The default installation path for make install is /usr/local. This may of
+course be customized with the various ./configure path options.
+
+If you do install to /usr/local, the install will use sysconfdir=$prefix/etc/
+privoxy by default. All other destinations, and the direct usage of
+--sysconfdir flag behave like normal, i.e. will not add the extra privoxy
+directory. This is for a safer install, as there may already exist another
+program that uses a file with the "config" name, and thus makes /usr/local/etc
+cleaner.
+
+If installing to /usr/local, the docs will go by default to $prefix/share/doc.
+But if this directory doesn't exist, it will then try $prefix/doc and install
+there before creating a new $prefix/share/doc just for Privoxy.
+
+Again, if the installs goes to /usr/local, the localstatedir (ie: var/) will
+default to /var instead of $prefix/var so the logs will go to /var/log/privoxy
+/, and the pid file will be created in /var/run/privoxy.pid.
+
+make install will attempt to set the correct values in config (main
+configuration file). You may want to check this to make sure all values are
+correct. If appropriate, an init script will be installed, but it is up to the
+user to determine how and where to start Privoxy.
+
+For more detailed instructions on how to build Redhat and SuSE RPMs, Windows
+self-extracting installers, building on platforms with special requirements
+etc, please consult the developer manual.
+
+For binary RPM installation, and other platforms, see the User Manual as well.
+
+The simplest command line to start Privoxy is $path/privoxy --user=privoxy
+$path/etc/privoxy/config. See privoxy --usage, or the man page, for other
+options, and configuration.