diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
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+Installing trytond
+==================
+
+Prerequisites
+-------------
+
+ * Python 2.4 or later (http://www.python.org/)
+ * psycopg 2 or later (http://www.initd.org/)
+ * lxml (http://codespeak.net/lxml/)
+ * egenix-mx-base (http://www.egenix.com/products/python/)
+ * relatorio 0.2.0 or later (http://relatorio.openhex.org/)
+ * Optional: pywebdav (http://sourceforge.net/projects/pywebdav/)
+ * Optional: pydot (http://code.google.com/p/pydot/)
+ * Optional: pytz (http://pytz.sourceforge.net/)
+ * Optional: openoffice.interact
+    (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/openoffice.interact/)
+ * Optional: sphinx (http://sphinx.pocoo.org/)
+
+Installation
+------------
+
+Once you've downloaded and unpacked a trytond source release, enter the
+directory where the archive was unpacked, and run:
+
+    python setup.py install
+
+Note that you may need administrator/root privileges for this step, as
+this command will by default attempt to install trytond to the Python
+site-packages directory on your system.
+
+For advanced options, please refer to the easy_install and/or the distutils
+documentation:
+
+  http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/EasyInstall
+  http://docs.python.org/inst/inst.html
+
+To use without installation, run ``bin/trytond`` from where the archive was
+unpacked.
diff --git a/MANIFEST.in b/MANIFEST.in
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--- a/MANIFEST.in
+++ b/MANIFEST.in
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 include LICENSE
 include COPYRIGHT
+include README
+include INSTALL
 include doc/*
 include etc/*
 include trytond/init.sql
diff --git a/README b/README
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+trytond
+=======
+
+The server of the Tryton application platform.
+A three-tiers  high-level general purpose application platform
+written in Python and use Postgresql as database engine.
+It is the core base of an Open Source ERP.
+It provides modularity, scalability and security.
+
+Installing
+----------
+
+See INSTALL
+
+Package Contents
+----------------
+
+  bin/
+      Script for startup.
+
+  doc/
+      sphinx documentation in reStructuredText.
+      To generate the HTML:
+
+        python doc/build.py
+
+  etc/
+      Configuration files.
+
+  trytond/
+      trytond.
+
+Support
+-------
+
+If you encounter any problems with Tryton, please don't hesitate to ask
+questions on the Tryton bug tracker, mailing list, wiki or IRC channel:
+
+  http://bugs.tryton.org/
+  http://groups.tryton.org/
+  http://wiki.tryton.org/
+  irc://irc.freenode.net/tryton
+
+License
+-------
+
+See LICENSE
+
+Copyright
+---------
+
+See COPYRIGHT
+
+
+For more information please visit the Tryton web site:
+
+  http://www.tryton.org/