add prerequisites section to INSTALL files, closes #58

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 883df64b1a1f44ce8f10fbe1cd41299f2424f4ad..43211c156c35a2ade8d23648d193ff2a5125d3f7 100644 (file)
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -1,4 +1,17 @@
 
+Prerequisites
+:::::::::::::
+
+ - make
+ - C compiler
+ - user with access to kernel interface statistics
+   - usually available by default but can be restricted for example
+     by grsecurity and similar security enhancement suites or settings
+ - libgd (optional, image output)
+ - check (optional, test suite)
+ - autotools (optional, for recreating configure and makefiles)
+
+
 Compiling the binaries
 ::::::::::::::::::::::
 

diff --git a/INSTALL_BSD b/INSTALL_BSD
index eeafa3f4be6c65168e9c3669d34c53c934ab5552..d152bdcc4210aaae997056029a7725bbca9d7e33 100644 (file)
--- a/INSTALL_BSD
+++ b/INSTALL_BSD
@@ -1,4 +1,16 @@
 
+Prerequisites
+:::::::::::::
+
+ - make or gmake
+ - C compiler
+ - user with access to kernel interface statistics
+   - usually available by default but may be restricted by security settings
+ - graphics/gd (optional, image output)
+ - devel/check (optional, test suite)
+ - autotools (optional, for recreating configure and makefiles)
+
+
 Compiling the binaries
 ::::::::::::::::::::::
 

diff --git a/man/vnstati.1 b/man/vnstati.1
index 46ff73e74a1f0a70f0a5e8cdef5d5e2ff60b2c94..9fa71b215e9bf1db83c6e848f49ed177270eb135 100644 (file)
--- a/man/vnstati.1
+++ b/man/vnstati.1
@@ -264,8 +264,8 @@ file /home/me/vnstat.cfg to standard output (stdout).
 
 .SH RESTRICTIONS
 
-Depending on the font provided by the GD library, not all characters may end up shown
-correctly when a UTF-8 locale is used.
+Depending on the built-in fonts provided by the GD library, not all characters
+may end up shown correctly when a UTF-8 locale is used.
 .PP
 Using long date output formats may cause misalignment in shown columns if the
 length of the date exceeds the fixed size allocation.