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-[Ubuntu Linux]
-Fonts
-	- If you want to use the web compatible fonts, you need to install the package ttf-mscorefonts-installer.

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+# OpenBoard
+OpenBoard is an open source cross-platform interactive white board application designed for use in schools. It is a fork of Open-Sankoré, which was itself based on Uniboard.
+
+Supported platforms are Windows (7+), OS X (10.9+) and Linux (tested on Ubuntu 14.04, but should work with other distributions too).
+
+# Dependencies
+
+The latest version (1.10) requires Qt 5.5. See below for Linux-specific instructions.
+
+OpenBoard makes use of several third-party libraries, which are available in the OpenBoard-ThirdParty repository. These should be built first; instructions are provided for each library.
+
+## Linux
+
+### Qt
+Due to a shared library conflict within Qt5 on Linux (the Qt Multimedia and Qt Webkit modules are built against different versions of gstreamer by default), a specific installation of Qt5.5 is needed for all of OpenBoard's features to work correctly.
+
+It can either be built from source, with the configure flag `-gstreamer 1.0` (see [here](http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/linux-building.html)), or installed from Stephan Binner's PPAs on Ubuntu.
+In the latter case, simply add the repositories and install Qt 5.5.1 like so:
+
+    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:beineri/opt-qt551-trusty
+    sudo apt-get update
+    sudo apt-get install qt-latest
+
+### Onboard
+OpenBoard has a built-in virtual keyboard, but also allows the use of an external OSK (which is now the default, as the built-in keyboard will likely be removed in a future release). 
+On Linux, Onboard is currently used as the external OSK. In case you can't or won't install it, you can simply use the built-in OSK instead. 
+
+# Installation & Deployment
+
+Deployment scripts are provided for all three platforms. These take care of compiling OpenBoard, including the translations (for OpenBoard and for Qt), stripping the debug symbols, creating the installers etc.
+Minor modification to those scripts may be necessary depending on your configuration, to set the correct Qt path for example.
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