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Add documentation for installing snf-image-creator

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Installation
============
This guide describes how to install snf-image-creator on an Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
system. It it highly recommended to have virtualization capable hardware.
snf-image-creator can work on processors that do not support virtualization but
it will be extremely slow.
Dependencies
------------
snf-image-creator depends on the following programs:
* Python 2 [http://www.python.org/]
* Python setuptools [http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools]
* Python Dialog [http://pythondialog.sourceforge.net/]
* Python bindings for libguestfs [http://libguestfs.org/]
* Kamaki [https://code.grnet.gr/projects/kamaki]
* Python Sybprocess Wrapper [http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pbs]
* ANSI colors for Python [http://pypi.python.org/pypi/ansicolors]
* progress [http://pypi.python.org/pypi/progress]
* Python interface to sendfile [http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pysendfile]
The first four programs (python2, setuptools, libguestfs and Python Dialog)
need to be installed manually by the user. In an Ubuntu 12.04 LTS system this
can be archived using packages directly provided by the distribution, using
the following command:
.. code-block:: console
$ apt-get install python-setuptools python-guestfs python-dialog
The rest of the dependencies will be resolved by setuptools.
Python Virtual Environment
--------------------------
Since snf-image-creator and the rest of it's dependencies won't be installed
using packages provided by the distribution it's better to work in an isolated
python virtual environment (virtualenv). Installing the Virtual Python
Environment builder in Ubuntu can be accomplished using the following command:
.. code-block:: console
$ apt-get install python-virtualenv
Now, create a new python virtual environment like this:
.. code-block:: console
$ virtualenv --system-site-packages ~/image-creator-env
and activate it by executing:
.. code-block:: console
$ source ~/image-creator-env/bin/activate
You can later deactivate it using the following command:
.. code-block:: console
$ deactivate
kamaki Installation
-------------------
Install kamaki from source, by cloning it's repository:
.. code-block:: console
$ git clone https://code.grnet.gr/git/kamaki
$ cd kamaki
$ ./setup build
Then, make sure you are within the activated virtual environment before you
execute:
.. code-block:: console
$ ./setup install
snf-image-creator Installation
------------------------------
Install snf-image-creator the same way:
.. code-block:: console
$ git clone https://code.grnet.gr/git/snf-image-creator
$ cd snf-image-creator
$ ./setup build
And from within the virtual environment execute:
.. code-block:: console
$ ./setup install
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