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+# Pacemaker
+
+## What is Pacemaker?
+Pacemaker is an advanced, scalable High-Availability cluster resource
+manager for Linux-HA (Heartbeat) and/or Corosync.
+
+It supports "n-node" clusters with significant capabilities for
+managing resources and dependencies.
+
+It will run scripts at initialization, when machines go up or down,
+when related resources fail and can be configured to periodically check
+resource health.
+
+## For more information look at:
+* [Website](http://www.clusterlabs.org)
+* [Issues/Bugs](http://bugs.clusterlabs.org)
+* [Mailing list](http://oss.clusterlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/pacemaker).
+* [Documentation](http://www.clusterlabs.org/doc)
+
+## Build Dependencies
+* automake
+* autoconf
+* libtool-ltdl-devel
+* pkgconfig
+* python
+* glib2-devel
+* cluster-glue-libs-devel
+* libxml2-devel
+* libxslt-devel 
+* python-devel
+* gcc-c++
+* bzip2-devel
+* gnutls-devel
+* pam-devel
+
+## Cluster Stack Dependencies (Pick at least one)
+* clusterlib-devel (CMAN)
+* corosynclib-devel (Corosync)
+* heartbeat-devel (Heartbeat)
+
+## Optional Build Dependencies
+* ncurses-devel
+* openssl-devel
+* libselinux-devel
+* docbook-style-xsl (documentation)
+* libesmtp-devel (Email alerts)
+* lm_sensors-devel (SNMP alerts)
+* net-snmp-devel (SNMP alerts)
+* asciidoc (documentation)
+* help2man (documentation)
+* publican (documentation)
+* inkscape (documentation)
+
+## Source Control (GIT)
+
+    git clone git://github.com/ClusterLabs/pacemaker.git
+
+[See Github](https://github.com/ClusterLabs/pacemaker)
+
+## Installing from source
+
+    $ ./autogen.sh
+    $ ./configure
+    $ make
+    $ sudo make install
+
+## How you can help
+If you find this project useful, you may want to consider supporting its future development.
+There are a number of ways to support the project.
+
+* Test and report issues.
+* Help others on the [mailing list](http://oss.clusterlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/pacemaker).
+* Contribute documentation, examples and test cases.
+* Contribute patches.
+* Spread the word.