suggest cargo build as an alternative

[hippotat.git] / docs / install.md

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--- a/docs/install.md
+++ b/docs/install.md
@@ -6,8 +6,8 @@ The documentation is procssed with Sphinx.
 
 It is most convenient to install (especailly the server) as a `.deb`.
 
-Building .debs
---------------
+Building
+--------
 
 On a system with a new enough `cargo` and `rustc`:
 
@@ -27,6 +27,11 @@ are controlled and checked
 by the `Cargo.lock` file shipped in the Hippotat source tree,
 provided that `cargo --locked` is used.
 
+If you don't want to install debs,
+you can also just use cargo to build the two binaries,
+`hippotat` and `hippotatd`.
+You could perhaps even `cargo install hippotat` on a client machine.
+
 
 Installation
 ------------