installation instructions

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@@ -22,3 +22,25 @@ Some example collection schemas are provided, but one big strenght of
 lesana is the ability to customize your collection with custom fields
 either by simply writing a personalize schema.yaml or, in more complex
 cases, by inheriting from it in another module.
+
+Installation
+------------
+
+lesana expects to run on a POSIX-like system and requires the following
+dependencies:
+
+* python3
+* `guacamole <https://github.com/zyga/guacamole/>`_
+* xapian_
+* `ruamel.yaml <https://bitbucket.org/ruamel/yaml>`_
+* `jinja2 <http://jinja.pocoo.org/>`_
+* `GitPython <https://github.com/gitpython-developers/GitPython>`_
+  optional, to add git support.
+
+Under debian (and derivatives), the packages to install are::
+
+   apt install python3-guacamole python3-jinja2 python3-ruamel.yaml \
+   python3-xapian python3-git
+
+(some of those are only available on stretch-onwards because earlier
+versions lacked python3 support.)