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Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2022 14:48:11 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Updated README.MD with instructions

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 MicroBin is a super tiny and simple self hosted pastebin app written in Rust. The executable is around 6MB and it uses 2MB memory (plus your pastas).
 
-Features:
+### Installation
+Simply clone the repository, build it with `cargo build --release` and run the `microbin` executable in the created `target/release/` directory. It will start on port 8080. 
+
+To install it as a service on your Linux machine, create a file called `/etc/systemd/system/microbin.service`, paste this into it with the value of `ExecStart` replaced with the actual path to microbin on your machine.
+
+```
+[Unit]
+Description=MicroBin
+After=network.target
+[Service]
+Type=simple
+Restart=always
+ExecStart=/home/pi/microbin/target/release/microbin
+[Install]
+WantedBy=multi-user.target
+```
+
+Then start the service with `systemctl start microbin` and enable it on boot with `systemctl enable microbin`.
+
+### Features
 - No CSS or JS, super lightweight and simple
 - Animal names instead of random numbers for pasta identifiers
 - Automatically expiring pastas
 - Never expiring pastas
 - Listing and manually removing pastas
 
-Needed improvements:
+### Needed improvements
 - Persisting pastas on disk (currently they are lost on restart)
 - Removing pasta after N reads
 - File uploads
 - URL shortening
 
-![Screenshot](git/pasta.png)
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