Merge pull request #96 from indigo-dc/devel

README

README.md

@@ -35,6 +35,20 @@ using tools and libraries such as:
 * runC
 * Singularity
 
+## Advantages
+* Provides a docker like command line interface
+* Supports a subset of docker commands:
+  search, pull, import, export, load, create and run
+* Understands docker container metadata
+* Can be deployed by the end-user
+* Does not require privileges for installation
+* Does not require privileges for execution
+* Does not require compilation, just transfer the Python script and run
+* Encapsulates several execution methods
+* Includes the required tools already compiled to work across systems
+* Tested with GPGPU and MPI applications
+* Runs both on new and older Linux distributions (including: CentOS 6, CentOS 7, Ubuntu 14, Ubuntu 16, Fedora, etc)
+
 ## Installation
 See the [Installation manual](doc/installation_manual.md)
 

doc/installation_manual.md

@@ -59,15 +59,15 @@ From the master branch:
 ```
   curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/indigo-dc/udocker/master/udocker.py > udocker
   chmod u+rx ./udocker
-  ./udocker version
+  ./udocker install
 ```
 
 From the development branch:
 
 ```
   curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/indigo-dc/udocker/devel/udocker.py > udocker
   chmod u+rx ./udocker
-  ./udocker version
+  ./udocker install
 ```
 
 ### 2.3. OBTAINING THE URL OF THE LATEST TARBALL
@@ -78,17 +78,14 @@ installation tarball URL by invoking the `version` command. The tarball location
 contain several URLs pointing to mirrors.
 
 ```
-  git clone https://github.com/indigo-dc/udocker
-  cd udocker
-  chmod u+rx udocker
   ./udocker version
 ```
 
 Third, pick one URL and download the tarball using tools such as curl or wget.
 
 ### 2.4. FORCE INSTALLATION
 
-To force reinstallation invoke udocker install with the flag `--force`:
+To force download and reinstallation of the udocker tools. Invoke udocker install with the flag `--force`:
 
 ```
   ./udocker install --force
@@ -174,6 +171,7 @@ To get the udocker source code repository from the devel branch.
 
 ```
   git clone https://github.com/indigo-dc/udocker
+  cd udocker
   checkout devel
 ```