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 A lightweight monero payment gateway that can be embedded into any website.  "pago" is esperanto for "payment", just as "monero" is esperanto for "money".  
 
-## Project overview
+## Overview
 
 There are three components to pago, shown in the big square at the bottom in this diagram: 
 
@@ -38,3 +38,16 @@ walletRPC│    │walletRPC
 The processor api is an express/node.js server and the two frontends have a single lightweight dependency: the knockoutJS microframework.  
 
 There is no database.  Data are stored in the wallet file, which should be backed up like any data.  
+
+## Installation
+
+Copy sample files to environment files: 
+
+```sh
+cp docker-compose.override.sample.yml docker-compose.override.yml
+cp sample.env .env
+```
+
+Configure `.env` and `docker-compose.override.yml` according to your setup (they are commmented). 
+
+Docker is not required; you can also run `npm run start` to run a server on port 80.  You will need to run a wallet-rpc service too.