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+## Installation Instructions
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+To install PseuWoW on Linux please run the following commands
+
+    autoreconf -if
+    ./configure --prefix=/path/to/pseuwow
+    make
+    make install
+
+configure accepts the following parameters:
+
+    --with-irrklang    Builds a stub implementation of Irrklang (necessary for x64 systems)
+
+
+After installation edit the config files in bin/conf and rename them to PseuWoW.conf, gui.conf, ScriptConfig.conf and users.conf.
+If UseMPQ in PseuWoW.conf is set, create a link/copy to your "TheGame" **Data** folder in bin. Otherwise use stuffextract with the appropriate parameters to extract data from "TheGame" archives and copy it to bin/data
+
+To run PseuWoW please execute
+
+    ./pseuwow
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