From 9d0d211acce74a6974387d6bd59f3143e90a7efe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Carl-Erik Kopseng <carlerik@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2025 00:53:42 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Add instructions for using Alire to get binaries

Simplify install steps into a single line
ref https://alire.ada.dev/docs/#new-subcommand-alr-install
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 README.md | 15 +++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 129c1807..bae3020f 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -17,6 +17,21 @@ for Ada:
 
 These are currently under development.
 
+Installing
+----------
+If you are only concerned in getting the suite of executables you can most easily do so by using the [Alire][alire] package manager to handle the building and installing for you. The steps are:
+```bash
+alr install libadalang_tools
+```
+The build step will require a substantial amount of CPU and RAM, but once successful you should find the executables in `$HOME/.alire/bin`. If this is not in the `$PATH` set up by your shell's resource files, you should do so now, typically doing something like this (example is using Bash):
+```bash
+echo 'export PATH="$HOME/.alire/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bashrc
+```
+
+Note that the crates on Alire are not always up to date with the [latest released version][releases].
+
+[alire]: https://alire.ada.dev/
+[releases]: https://github.com/AdaCore/libadalang-tools/releases
 
 Build
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