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+# Setting up the development environment
+
+Multiple choices are available for developing the Kube project:
+
+- Manually
+- Docker
+
+## Manually
+
+- If sink is not in you repositories:
+    - Install the dependencies of Sink:
+        - extra-cmake-modules
+        - qt5-qtbase-devel / qtbase5-dev
+        - libgit2-dev(el)
+        - lmdb-devel / liblmdb-dev
+        - readline-devel / libreadline-dev
+        - libcurl-dev(el)
+        - kf5-kimap
+        - kf5-kimap-devel
+        - [KAsync](https://github.com/KDE/kasync/releases)
+    - Install Sink
+- Install the Kube project:
+    - `mkdir build && cd build && cmake .. && make && sudo make install`
+
+If you did not install sink in the `/usr` directory, you might need to set the
+`QT_PLUGIN_PATH` variable to something like this:
+`$SINK_INSTALL_PREFIX/lib/plugins`.
+
+In the same way, if did not install Kube in the `/usr` directory, you might
+need to set the `QML2_IMPORT_PATH` to something like this:
+`$KUBE_INSTALL_PREFIX/lib/qml/`.
+
+## Docker
+
+- Go to the `docker` directory
+- In the `run.sh` script, set the SOURCEDIR, BUILDDIR and INSTALLDIR variables
+  to an existing path containing respectively the source, build and
+  installation directory of kube. The build and installation directory can be
+  empty at first.
+- Run the `./build.sh` script
+- Run the `./run.sh` script
+- In the now opened container shell, run `cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/install /src`
+- Run `make install`