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 # Console interface to NETCONF servers
 
+This program provides an interactive console for working with YANG data.
+It can connect to NETCONF servers, and also talk to [sysrepo](http://www.sysrepo.org/) locally.
+
+## Installation
+
+For building, one needs:
+
+* A C++17 compiler
+* [Boost](https://www.boost.org/) version 1.69
+* [cmake](https://cmake.org/download/) for managing the build
+* [libyang](https://github.com/CESNET/libyang) for working with YANG models
+* [libnetconf2](https://github.com/CESNET/libnetconf2) for connecting to NETCONF servers
+* [sysrepo](https://github.com/sysrepo/sysrepo/) **version 0.7.x** for the local sysrepo backend
+* [replxx](https://github.com/AmokHuginnsson/replxx) which provides interactive line prompts
+* [docopt](https://github.com/docopt/docopt.cpp) for CLI option parsing
+* [pkg-config](https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/pkg-config/) for building
+* [Doctest](https://github.com/onqtam/doctest/) as a C++ unit test framework
+* [trompeloeil](https://github.com/rollbear/trompeloeil) for mock objects in C++
+
+Use an **exact commit** of any dependencies as specified in `submodules/dependencies/*`.
+
+The build process uses [CMake](https://cmake.org/runningcmake/).
+A quick-and-dirty build with no fancy options can be as simple as `mkdir build && cd build && cmake .. && make && make install`.
+
+## Bug Reporting
+
+Issue reporting and feature requests are welcome [via Taiga.io](https://tree.taiga.io/project/jktjkt-netconf-cli/issues?status=1900205,1900206,1900207).
+
+## Development
+
+We are using [Gerrit](https://gerrit.cesnet.cz/q/project:CzechLight%252Fnetconf-cli+status:open) for patch submission, code review and Continuous Integration (CI).
+Development roadmap and planning happens [over Taiga.io](https://tree.taiga.io/project/jktjkt-netconf-cli/kanban).
+
 ## Credits
 
 Copyright © Faculty of Information Technology, Czech Technical University in Prague, https://fit.cvut.cz/ .