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-Welcome to Ledger, a command-line accounting program.
+ Welcome to Ledger, a command-line accounting program.
Quick start
===========
-To build Ledger, you will first need these two libraries installed:
+To build Ledger, you will need a fairly modern C++ compiler (gcc 2.95
+will not work), and at least these two libraries installed:
gmp GNU multi-precision library
pcre Perl regular expression library
+(On some GNU/Linux systems, the packages you need to install are
+called "gmp-dev" and "pcre-dev").
+
If you wish to read Gnucash data files, you will also need two XML
libraries, which may or may not be available in a single package (it
depends on your distribution):