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+[![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/battlemidget/sosreport.png?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/battlemidget/sosreport)
+
+This set of tools is designed to provide information to support organizations
+in an extensible manner, allowing third parties, package maintainers, and
+anyone else to provide plugins that will collect and report information that
+is useful for supporting software packages.
+
+This project is hosted at http://github.com/sosreport/sosreport For the latest
+version, to contribute, and for more information, please visit there.
+
+To access to the public source code repository for this project run:
+
+```
+git clone git://github.com/sosreport/sosreport.git
+```
+
+### Manual Installation ###
+
+```
+to install locally (as root) ==> make install
+to build an rpm ==> make rpm
+to build a deb ==> make deb-unsign
+to build a zipfile for use with jython ==> make zip
+```
+
+### Pre-built Packaging ###
+
+Fedora/RHEL users install via yum:
+
+```
+yum install sos
+```
+
+Debian/Ubuntu users can install via PPA:
+
+```
+sudo add-apt-repository ppa:debugmonkeys/sosreport
+sudo apt-get update
+sudo apt-get install sos
+```