From b7f36e187d1b5362a72b50779aff182d7131d8f5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ben Noordhuis <info@bnoordhuis.nl>
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2013 08:35:24 +0200
Subject: doc: link to pre-built binaries, add install note

lLnk to http://nodejs.org/download/ and add a short primer on how to
extract the tarballs.

Fixes #6292.
---
 README.md | 13 +++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)

(limited to 'README.md')

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 2f018e5f9..12fd05aa5 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -28,6 +28,19 @@ Windows:
 
     vcbuild.bat
 
+You can download pre-built binaries for various operating systems from
+[http://nodejs.org/download/](http://nodejs.org/download/).  The Windows
+and OS X installers will prompt you for the location to install to.
+The tarballs are self-contained; you can extract them to a local directory
+with:
+
+    tar xzf /path/to/node-<version>-<platform>-<arch>.tar.gz
+
+Or system-wide with:
+
+    cd /usr/local && tar --strip-components 1 -xzf \
+                         /path/to/node-<version>-<platform>-<arch>.tar.gz
+
 ### To run the tests:
 
 Unix/Macintosh:
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