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Expand Up @@ -51,17 +51,28 @@ However, nss-tls does not depend on [systemd](https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/S

nss-tls uses [Meson](http://mesonbuild.com/) as its build system.

On [Debian](http://www.debian.org/) and derivatives, these dependencies can be obtained using:
## Compilation

On [Debian](http://www.debian.org/) and derivatives, install prerequisites:

apt install libglib2.0-dev libsoup2.4-dev ninja-build python3-pip meson

If `meson` is not available as package

apt install libglib2.0-dev libsoup2.4-dev ninja-build python3-pip
pip3 install meson

## Usage
Then compile nss-tls with:

meson --prefix=/usr --buildtype=release -Dstrip=true build

and install in `/usr/sbin` (requires root access)
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sudo ninja -C build install

## Configuration

Assuming your system runs [systemd](https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/):

meson --prefix=/usr --buildtype=release -Dstrip=true build
ninja -C build install
systemctl daemon-reload
systemctl enable nss-tlsd
systemctl start nss-tlsd
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