Improvements to install instructions in README

README.md

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 ==========
 Installation
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-You need:
+### Mac OSX
 
-* [RTMPDump](http://rtmpdump.mplayerhq.hu/) 2.4 or higher
+If you have OS X and [Homebrew](http://brew.sh/) you can install with:
-* [PyCrypto](https://www.dlitz.net/software/pycrypto/) to download encrypted HLS streams
-
-You can install it by running the following as root:
-
-    python setup.py install
-
-If you have OS X and [Homebrew](http://brew.sh/)
-you can install with:
 
     brew install svtplay-dl
 
-On Debian (Jessie and later), you can install it by running
+### Debian and Ubuntu
-the following as root:
+
+svtplay-dl is available in Debian in Jessie and later and Ubuntu
+in 14.10 and later, which means you can install it using apt:
 
     apt-get install svtplay-dl
 
+... as root.
+
+### From source
+
+If packaging isn't available for your operating system, or you
+want to use a non-released version, you'll want to install from
+source. Use git to download the sources:
+
+    git clone git://github.com/spaam/svtplay-dl
+
+svtplay-dl requires the following additional tools and libraries.
+They are usually available from your distribution's package
+repositories. If you don't have them, some features will not be
+working.
+
+* [RTMPDump](http://rtmpdump.mplayerhq.hu/) 2.4 or higher to
+  download RTMP streams.
+* [PyCrypto](https://www.dlitz.net/software/pycrypto/) to
+  download encrypted HLS streams
+
+To install it, run
+
+    make
+
+    # as root:
+    make install
+
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