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+NetSurf source -- Web Browser and all associated support libraries
+==================================================================
+
+Overview
+--------
+
+NetSurf is a compact graphical web browser which aims for HTML5, CSS
+and JavaScript support.
+
+This complete source package contains all the required NetSurf
+support libraries to build the browser.
+
+Binaries
+--------
+
+The NetSurf project provide binary builds for releases for several
+platforms form the website and have packaged the browser in several
+distributions. This option may be more suitable for some users than
+compiling from source.
+
+Compilation
+-----------
+
+A simple "make" is sufficient to compile the browser with the
+default gtk toolkit selection.
+
+It depends upon the host system having a suitable toolchain for
+compiling c programs installed along with GNU make, zlib, flex,
+bison and lipjpeg
+
+In addition to the core library dependencies it is strongly
+recommended libcurl, openssl and libpng libraries are present or the
+browser will not have HTTP fetches, HTTPS fetches and PNG graphics
+support respectively.
+
+There are multiple GUI toolkits available which all have additional
+dependencies i.e. gtk browser frontend requires the gtk development
+libraries.