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 # Zlevis
 
 A minimal fork of [Clevis](https://github.com/latchset/clevis), rewritten in POSIX shell to accommodate automatic decryption of a ZFS root pool with TPM2. 
+
+## Installation
+
+### Alpine Linux
+
+Work in progress.
+
+### Manual
+
+Zlevis can be manually installed with `meson`, after cloning the repository, setup the build directory
+
+```
+$ meson setup builddir
+```
+
+Installation of the zlevis scripts is now performed with
+
+```
+# meson install -C builddir
+```
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+# Project definition
+project('zlevis', license: 'GPL3', version: '1')
+
+# Define bindir
+bindir=join_paths(get_option('prefix'), get_option('bindir'))
+
+# Define bins list
+bins=[]
+
+# Define subdir with bins
+subdir('src')
+
+# Install bins in bindir
+install_data(bins, install_dir: bindir)
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+bins += join_paths(meson.current_source_dir(), 'zlevis-encrypt')
+bins += join_paths(meson.current_source_dir(), 'zlevis-decrypt')
+bins += join_paths(meson.current_source_dir(), 'zlevis-fetch')