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index da4dfb6..9216e72 100644
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@@ -4,6 +4,20 @@ commit-patch
 Commit patches to Darcs, Git, Mercurial, Bazaar, Monotone, Subversion, or CVS
 
 
+Installation
+------------
+
+On a recent Debian/Ubuntu:
+
+    apt install commit-patch
+
+Anywhere else: Install the prerequisites below and download the release
+tarball from the [homepage](https://porkrind.org/commit-patch/). This
+tarball contains a "fatpackad" version of the `commit-patch` perl script
+with the external perl dependencies embedded. Then put the commit-patch
+and commit-partial binaries into your `PATH`.
+
+
 Prerequisites
 -------------
 
@@ -32,16 +46,15 @@ and, of course, one of:
 
 On Debian/Ubuntu:
 
-    apt-get install libipc-run-perl patch patchutils
+    apt-get install patch patchutils
 
 On Fedora:
 
-    yum install perl-IPC-Run patch patchutils
+    yum install patch patchutils
 
 On Mac OS X w/ [Homebrew](https://brew.sh)
 
     brew install patchutils
-    cpan -i IPC::Run
 
 
 Instructions
@@ -74,6 +87,17 @@ the resulting hunks using diff mode's built-in commands and to then hit
 `C-c C-c` to commit the patch.
 
 
+Development
+-----------
+
+`commit-patch` uses [Carton](https://github.com/perl-carton/carton) for
+local development. Once Carton is installed:
+
+    carton install
+
+After than `commit-patch` and `commit-partial` should work (there is no
+need to `carton exec` them—the code autodetects the local libs.
+
 
 Homepage
 --------