o Adding 'digikey-download-metadata' tool that downloads everything from Digi-Key. Should support writing directly to database.

1 files changed, 24 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index de1d761..20b2fc8 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,3 +1,23 @@
+# Installing
+
+## From Git
+
+For development, set `dir` to `env`.
+
+    virtualenv -p python3 $dir
+    env/bin/pip install -r requirement.txt
+
+On Debian-based distributions you might need to have the `libdb-dev`
+package installed.
+
+To test the pip installation, use
+
+    env/bin/pip install . --upgrade --prefix $dir
+
+Then you can use this to play around with the application:
+
+    env/bin/eda-rdf
+
 # Applications to implement
 
 ## Rules
@@ -21,7 +41,9 @@ o Download datasheets, IBIS model, SPICE model
 
 # TODOs
 
-* Change the arg parser to always allow a '--db' argument that defaults to './.eda-rdf'
+* Change the arg parser to always allow a '--db' argument that
+  defaults to './.eda-rdf'
 * Create an 'init' command similar to git init
-* Rename "schematic" to "project"? Schematic is .. schematic specific but many of the possible tools work on the BOM
+* Rename "schematic" to "project"? Schematic is .. schematic specific
+  but many of the possible tools work on the BOM
   and/or on the PCB so 'project' is probably a better term.