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DEB package support: move to contrib
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Since DEB packages have seen much update in the last releases, instead
of pointing to very old and innacturate releases, let's move those to
contrib.  While at it, let's document what is officially distributed
and what's best effort (contrib level).

Signed-off-by: Cleber Rosa <[email protected]>
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Installing Avocado
==================

Avocado is available in RPM packages for Fedora, and `DEB packages for Ubuntu`_.

.. _DEB packages for Ubuntu: https://launchpad.net/~lmr/+archive/avocado
Avocado is officially available in RPM packages for Fedora and
Enterprise Linux. Other RPM based distributions may package and ship
Avocado themselves. DEB package support is available in the source
tree (look at the ``contrib/packages/debian`` directory).

.. Note: the following text should instead reference the distro tiers levels
Avocado is primarily being developed on Fedora, but reasonable efforts
are being made to support other platforms such as Ubuntu.
are being made to support other GNU/Linux based platforms.

Fedora
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sudo curl https://repos-avocadoproject.rhcloud.com/static/avocado-el.repo -o /etc/yum.repos.d/avocado.repo
sudo yum install avocado


Ubuntu
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You can install Avocado by running the following commands::

sudo echo "deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/lmr/avocado/ubuntu utopic main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install avocado

Generic installation from a GIT repository
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