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+# The Lounge's official ArchLinux package
+
+This is a clone of the repository [already available](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/thelounge/) on the [AUR](https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_User_Repository).
+
+This repository is to be used to track ArchLinux's specific issues with this package and allow users to contribute changes to it as well.
+
+## Installation
+
+Please follow the usual ArchLinux documentation to install this package fromt he AUR either manually or using your favorite AUR helper. These instructions are only provided as a quick example, but as typical with ArchLinux you are strongly encouraged to read the approprite documentation.
+
+### Manually
+```
+$ git clone https://github.com/thelounge/arch-lounge.git
+$ cd arch-lounge
+$ # optional: select your release (experimental, master, stable)
+$ git checkout stable
+$ makepkg
+# pacman -U thelounge-*.pkg.*
+```
+
+### With an AUR helper
+with pacaur:
+```
+$ pacaur -aS thelounge
+```
+
+or with yaourt:
+```
+$ yaourt -aS thelounge
+```
+
+### Configuration
+The default system-wide documentation file is located at `/etc/thelounge/config.js`. Please note that user profiles and their IRC passwords are also stored there (moving to `/var/lib/thelounge` is planned but not yet done), so the directory is only readable by the `thelounge` user.
+
+### Running
+The Lounge provides both a system-wide and per-user systemd unit.
+
+#### System
+Simply enable the `thelounge.service` unit, and your server should be up and running:
+
+```
+# systemctl enable --now thelounge.service
+```
+
+#### User
+If you do not want to run the software system-wide, or host multiple users that wish to host their own instance of The Lounge, it can also be launched per user:
+
+```
+$ systemctl --user enable --now thelounge.service
+```
+
+Please note that for The Lounge to start on boot in this scenario, you will also require to have [lingering](https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd/User#Automatic_start-up_of_systemd_user_instances) enabled for this user:
+
+```
+# loginctl enable-linger $username
+```
+