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@@ -12,6 +12,22 @@ ModemManager provides a unified high level API for communicating with mobile broadband modems, regardless of the protocol used to communicate with the actual device (Generic AT, vendor-specific AT, QCDM, QMI, MBIM...). +## Getting Started + +ModemManager uses the meson build system. Meson is likely available as a +package from your Linux distrubtion, but if not please refer to the [Meson +project](https://mesonbuild.com/Quick-guide.html) for installation instructions. Once you have Meson installed you'll +probably want to install [libmbim](https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mobile-broadband/libmbim) and [libqmi](https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mobile-broadband/libqmi) which most modems require. + +After dependencies are installed you can build ModemManager with: + + $ meson setup build --prefix=/usr --buildtype=release + $ ninja -C build + +And after a successful build, install with: + + $ sudo ninja -C build install + ## Using ModemManager is a system daemon and is not meant to be used directly from |