From 1c9e8a088e75e64f1313c71b9c897661cf9d3d7c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Steve McIntyre Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2018 14:30:35 +0100 Subject: Initial list of build requirements --- README | 18 ++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+) (limited to 'README') diff --git a/README b/README index b0281981f94..77520af31e9 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -6,3 +6,21 @@ If you are interested in working on the Debian web pages, please see: https://www.debian.org/devel/website/ + +Build requirements +------------------ + +There are a range of tools needed to build even the basic bits of the +website, and then some extra/optional packages that you'll need for +some of the translations. Here's a (probably incomplete!) list... + +Basics: + + * git (you probably have this already if you're reading this!) + * wget (the build will use wget to grab some files as it runs) + * wml (the templating engine we use) + * libxml-rss-perl (for building Debian Weekly News RDF files) + +Translations: + + * opencc (Chinese translation conversions) -- cgit v1.2.3