improve readme

[psensor.git] / README

diff --git a/README b/README
index f911f9b..d137cb6 100644 (file)
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ It can monitor:
   * the temperature of the Hard Disk Drives (using hddtemp).
   * the rotation speed of the fans (using lm-sensors).
   * the temperature of a remote computer.
+  * the cpu load.
 
 Alarms using Desktop Notification can be set to each sensor to notify
 high temperatures.
@@ -47,11 +48,23 @@ For Debian, the binary and source packages are available in the wheezy
 Debian package information are available at:
 http://packages.qa.debian.org/p/psensor.html
 
+Compilation requires the following packages:
+
+gettext libgtk-3-dev libgconf2-dev libnotify-dev libsensors4-dev
+help2man libcurl4-openssl-dev libjson0-dev libmicrohttpd-dev
+libgtop2-dev
+
 Ubuntu
 ------
 
-For Ubuntu, the easy way to install Psensor and Psensor-server is to
-use the dedicated PPA.
+Notes about installation on Ubuntu is available at:
+http://wpitchoune.net/blog/psensor/ubuntu-integration
+
+Since Ubuntu Oneiric (11.10), psensor is available in the universe
+repository of Ubuntu.
+
+For other Ubuntu releases, the easy way to install Psensor and
+Psensor-server is to use the dedicated PPA.
 
 For the last stable version:
 sudo apt-get apt-add-repository ppa:/jfi/psensor
@@ -70,6 +83,18 @@ The manual installation of the psensor and psensor-server packages
 requires also the installation of psensor-common which contains
 the multiple languages support.
 
+Centos 6
+--------
+
+psensor can be compiled on Centos 6.0, by installing the following
+packages:
+gcc gtk2-devel GConf2-devel help2man gettext-devel libnotify-deval
+lm_sensors-devel libgtop2-devel
+
+As microhttpd and json-c libraries are not available in the standard centos
+repository, psensor-server cannot be compiled and the remote
+monitoring feature of psensor will not be available.
+
 Installation from source archive
 --------------------------------
 
@@ -78,7 +103,7 @@ Psensor compilation requires:
  * make/gcc    
  * lm-sensors
  * library sensors4
- * library gtk2
+ * library gtk2 (>= 2.18)
  * library gconf2
  * help2man 
  * library libnotify (optional)
@@ -86,6 +111,7 @@ Psensor compilation requires:
  * library libXNVCtrl (optional)
  * library json0 and curl (optional, required for remote monitoring)
  * library unity (>=v3.4.2, optional)
+ * library gtop2 (optional, required for CPU usage)
 
 Psensor-server compilation requires:
  * make/gcc    
@@ -94,8 +120,6 @@ Psensor-server compilation requires:
  * help2man 
  * library libmicrohttpd 
  * library json0
- * library LUA5.1 (optional, required to enable HTML page generation   
- of the psensor-server webserver)
  * library gtop2 (optional, required for CPU usage)
 
 Compilation and Installation Steps
@@ -118,5 +142,5 @@ instructions
 
 Contact
 -------
-Bugs and comments can be sent to wpitchoune@gmail.com
+Bugs and comments can be sent to jeanfi@gmail.com
 Home page: http://wpitchoune.net/psensor
\ No newline at end of file