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+# Parabolaweb README
+
+It is recommended that you just install the (Parabola) package
+`parabolaweb-utils`, it
+
+ - depends on the dependencies of parabolaweb (that is, don't use
+   virtualenv)
+ - has a `parabolaweb-update` program that does most of the things here
+ - has a `parabolaweb-changepassword` program that allows system users
+   to change their parabolaweb password
+ - has `/etc/uwsgi/parabolaweb.ini.example`
+
+To run parabolaweb, you can use `./manage testserver` to run a small
+HTTP server, or run `systemctl enable --now uwsgi@parabolaweb.socket`,
+and stick that behind a proper web server that speaks WSGI (such as
+Nginx).
+
+Following is Archweb's readme, as I figure it might be useful for some people,
+but I have given up on maintaining it for parabolaweb.
+
+# Archweb README
+
+To get a pretty version of this document, run
+
+    $ markdown README > README.html
+
+# License
+
+See LICENSE file.
+
+# Authors
+
+See AUTHORS file.
+
+# Dependencies
+
+- python2
+- python2-virtualenv
+
+# Python dependencies
+
+More detail in `requirements.txt` and `requirements_prod.txt`; it is best to
+use virtualenv and pip to handle these. But if you insist on (Arch Linux)
+packages, you will probably want the following:
+
+- django
+- python2-psycopg2
+- python2-markdown
+- python2-memcached
+
+# Testing Installation
+
+1. Run `virtualenv2`.
+
+        cd /path/to/archweb && virtualenv2 ./env/
+
+2. Activate the virtualenv.
+
+        source ./env/bin/activate
+
+2. Install dependencies through `pip`.
+
+        pip install -r requirements.txt
+
+3. Copy `local_settings.py.example` to `local_settings.py` and modify.
+   Make sure to uncomment the appropriate database section (either sqlite or
+   PostgreSQL).
+
+4. Sync the database to create it.
+
+        ./manage.py syncdb
+
+5. Migrate changes.
+
+        ./manage.py migrate
+
+6. Load the fixtures to prepopulate some data. If you don't want some of the
+   provided data, adjust the file glob accordingly.
+
+        ./manage.py loaddata main/fixtures/*.json
+        ./manage.py loaddata devel/fixtures/*.json
+        ./manage.py loaddata mirrors/fixtures/*.json
+        ./manage.py loaddata releng/fixtures/*.json
+
+7. Use the following commands to start a service instance
+
+        ./manage.py runserver
+
+8. To optionally populate the database with real data:
+
+        wget http://mirrors.kernel.org/archlinux/core/os/i686/core.db.tar.gz
+        ./manage.py reporead i686 core.db.tar.gz
+        ./manage.py syncisos
+
+Alter architecture and repo to get x86\_64 and packages from other repos if
+needed.
+
+# Production Installation
+
+Ask someone who knows, or you are going to be in trouble.
+
+vim: set syntax=markdown et: