From c7e591b36f70c82ff366cffb854c97138bc70ef3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: kuno <neokuno@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 09:22:37 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] added guidance for installation of geoip c library

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 README.md | 20 +++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 1c907eb..3bc95a8 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -2,13 +2,31 @@ __GeoIP binding for nodejs__
 
 Get geolocation information based on domain or IP address.
 
-####New Architecture
+##Import Notification
 
 From v0.4.0, geoip will be bind to libgeoip >= 1.4.6, which is a C library.
 
+####New Architecture
+
 ![new_architecture](https://github.com/kuno/GeoIP/raw/master/misc/new_architecture.png)  
 
 
+####How to install geoip C library
+
+If your os has a system package manager (e.g, on linux, apt of ubuntu, yum of fedora, pacman of arch. MacPorts and homebrew on OSX),
+
+then, there is a very high possibility that there is alreay a geoip c library package inside the repository.
+
+If not, you can build for yourself:
+
+    wget http://geolite.maxmind.com/download/geoip/api/c/GeoIP-1.4.7.tar.gz
+    tar -xvzf GeoIP.tar.gz
+    cd GeoIP-1.4.7
+    ./confiure
+    make 
+    sudo make install
+
+
 ##Data
 
 Befor you can use this package, you need to download or buy some data from [www.maxmind.com](http://www.maxmind.com/app/ip-location).