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+@c instguide.texi - Installation guide for GnuPG
+@c Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+@c This is part of the GnuPG manual.
+@c For copying conditions, see the file gnupg.texi.
+
+@node Installation
+@chapter A short installation guide
+
+Unfortunately the installation guide has not been finished in time.
+Instead of delaying the release of GnuPG 2.0 even further, I decided to
+release without that guide.  The chapter on gpg-agent and gpgsm do
+include brief information on how to set up the whole thing.  Please
+watch the GnuPG website for updates of the documentation.  In the
+meantime you may search the GnuPG mailing list archives or ask on the
+gnupg-users mailing list for advise on how to solve problems or how to
+get that whole thing up and running.
+
+** Building the software
+
+Building the software is described in the file @file{INSTALL}.  Given
+that you are already reading this documentation we can only give some
+extra hints.
+
+To comply with the rules on GNU systems you should have build time
+configured @command{gnupg} using:
+
+@example
+./configure --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var
+@end example
+
+This is to make sure that system wide configuration files are searched
+in the directory @file{/etc} and variable data below @file{/var};
+the default would be to also install them below @file{/usr/local} where
+the binaries get installed.  If you selected to use the
+@option{--prefix=/} you obviously don't need those option as they are
+the default then.
+
+
+** Notes on setting a root CA key to trusted
+
+X.509 is based on a hierarchical key infrastructure.  At the root of the
+tree a trusted anchor (root certificate) is required.  There are usually
+no other means of verifying whether this root certificate is trustworthy
+than looking it up in a list. GnuPG uses a file (@file{trustlist.txt})
+to keep track of all root certificates it knows about.  There are 3 ways
+to get certificates into this list:
+
+@itemize
+@item
+Use the list which comes with GnuPG. However this list only
+contains a few root certificates.  Most installations will need more.
+
+@item
+Let @command{gpgsm} ask you whether you want to insert a new root
+certificate.  This feature is enabled by default; you may disable it
+using the option @option{no-allow-mark-trusted} into
+@file{gpg-agent.conf}.
+
+@item
+Manually maintain the list of trusted root certificates. For a multi
+user installation this can be done once for all users on a machine.
+Specific changes on a per-user base are also possible.
+@end itemize
+
+@c describe how to maintain trustlist.txt and /etc/gnupg/trustlist.txt.
+
+
+@c ** How to get the ssh support running
+@c
+@c XXX How to use the ssh support.
+
+
+@c @section Installation Overview
+@c
+@c XXXX
+
+