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@@ -15,26 +15,40 @@ community around the general idea of version controlling your (digital) life.
 
 * IRC: #vcs-home on irc.oftc.net
 
-* Mailing list: http://lists.madduck.net/listinfo/vcs-home
+* Mailing list: [http://lists.madduck.net/listinfo/vcs-home][vcs-home-list]
 
-* Pull requests or issues on https://github.com/RichiH/vcsh
+* Pull requests or issues on [https://github.com/RichiH/vcsh][vcsh]
 
 # 2 Introduction #
 
-vcsh allows you to have several git repositories, all maintaining their working
-trees in $HOME without clobbering each other. That, in turn, means you can have
-one repository per config set (zsh, vim, ssh, etc), picking and choosing which
-configs you want to use on which machine.
-
-vcsh was designed with [mr] [1] in mind so you might want to install that, as
+[vcsh][vcsh] allows you to maintain several git repositories in one single
+directory. They all maintain their working trees without clobbering each other
+or interfering otherwise. By default, all git repositories maintained via
+`vcsh` are stored in `$HOME` but you can override this setting if you want to.
+All that means that you can have one repository per application or application
+family, i.e. `zsh`, `vim`, `ssh`, etc. This, in turn, allows you to clone
+custom sets of configurations onto different machines or even for different
+users; picking and mixing which configurations you want to use where.
+For example, you may not need to have your `mplayer` configuration on a server
+or available to root and you may want to maintain different configuration for
+`ssh` on your personal and your work machines.
+
+`vcsh` was designed with [mr][mr] in mind so you might want to install that, as
 well.
 
-Read INSTALL.md for detailed setup instructions.
+Read `INSTALL.md` and `PACKAGING` for instructions specific to your operating
+system.
 
 The following overview will try to give you an idea of the use cases and
-advantages of vcsh. See sections 3 and 4 for detailed instructions and
+advantages of `vcsh`. See sections 3 and 4 for detailed instructions and
 examples.
 
+## 2.1 Talks ##
+
+Some people found it useful to look at slides and videos explaining how `vcsh`
+works.
+They can all be found [on the author's talk page][talks].
+
 # 3 Overview
 
 ## 3.1 Comparison to Other Solutions ##
@@ -197,19 +211,48 @@ the template will be stored.
 
     apt-get install mr
 
-#### 4.1.2 Clone the Template ####
+#### 4.1.2 Install vcsh ####
+
+#### 4.1.2.1 Debian ####
+
+If you are using Debian Squeeze, you will need to enable backports
+
+    apt-get install vcsh
+
+#### 4.1.2.2 Arch Linux ####
+
+vcsh is availabe via [AUR](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=54164)
+and further documentation about the use of AUR is available
+[on Arch's wiki](https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_User_Repository).
+
+    cd /var/abs/local/
+    wget https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/vc/vcsh-git/vcsh-git.tar.gz
+    tar xfz vcsh-git.tar.gz
+    cd vcsh-git
+    makepkg -s
+    pacman -U vcsh*.pkg.tar.xz
+
+#### 4.1.2.3 From source ####
 
+If your version of mr is older than version 1.07, make sure to put
+
+    include = cat /usr/share/mr/vcsh
+
+into your .mrconfig .
+
+    # choose a location for your checkout
     cd $HOME
     mkdir -p ~/work/git
-    git clone git://github.com/RichiH/vcsh.git vcsh
-    # make sure 'include = cat /usr/share/mr/vcsh' points to an exiting file
-    vim .mrconfig
+    git clone git://github.com/RichiH/vcsh.git
     cd vcsh
     ln -s vcsh /usr/local/bin                       # or add it to your PATH
     cd
+
+#### 4.1.3 Clone the Template ####
+
     vcsh clone git://github.com/RichiH/vcsh_mr_template.git mr
 
-#### 4.1.3 Enable Your Test Repository ####
+#### 4.1.4 Enable Your Test Repository ####
 
     mv ~/.zsh   ~/zsh.bak
     mv ~/.zshrc ~/zshrc.bak
@@ -218,7 +261,7 @@ the template will be stored.
     cd
     mr up
 
-#### 4.1.4 Set Up Your Own Repositories ####
+#### 4.1.5 Set Up Your Own Repositories ####
 
 Now, it's time to edit the template config and fill it with your own remotes:
 
@@ -339,8 +382,8 @@ manually. Alternatively, you could try something like this:
         vcsh run $repo git pull;
     done
 
-----------
-
-mr can be found at: [http://kitenet.net/~joey/code/mr/][1]
 
-[1]: http://kitenet.net/~joey/code/mr/ (http://kitenet.net/~joey/code/mr/)
+[mr]: http://kitenet.net/~joey/code/mr/
+[talks]: http://richardhartmann.de/talks/
+[vcsh]: https://github.com/RichiH/vcsh
+[vcs-home-list]: http://lists.madduck.net/listinfo/vcs-home