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-rw-r--r--distribution/boxbackup/LINUX.txt6
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/distribution/boxbackup/LINUX.txt b/distribution/boxbackup/LINUX.txt
index 3342ab2a..d7481811 100644
--- a/distribution/boxbackup/LINUX.txt
+++ b/distribution/boxbackup/LINUX.txt
@@ -11,12 +11,14 @@ Requirements:
Require zlib and openssl headers for compilation -- may not be included when
installing the packages. (libssl-dev + libz-dev packages under debian)
-Bekerley DB v1 support is required. The configure script should find an
+Bekerley DB v1 or v4 support is required. The configure script should find an
appropriate db package -- and if not, use an in-memory version of the code.
However, the in-memory version is not desirable as it will lose information
over restarts of the daemon.
-Ideally, include the readline headers -- libreadline4-dev, probably.
+Ideally, use libeditline as a readline replacement. If not available then use
+GNU readline (libreadline4-dev, probably) and pass --enable-gnu-readline to
+./configure.