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 Installation
 ============
 
+Installing from source
+----------------------
+
 Please install the following packages before proceeding with the
 exchange compilation.
 
@@ -197,6 +200,38 @@ the exchange (which includes the code for the auditor).
 .. include:: frags/installing-taler-exchange.rst
 
 
+Installing the GNU Taler binary packages on Debian
+--------------------------------------------------
+
+.. include:: frags/installing-debian.rst
+
+To install the Taler auditor, you can now simply run:
+
+.. code-block:: console
+
+   # apt install taler-exchange
+
+Note that Taler auditor is part of the ``taler-exchange`` package.
+The package sets up the various users and the systemd service scripts
+for an exchange, which will not be needed for an auditor. Simply do not
+enable the taler-exchange-httpd service and this should be harmless.
+
+.. note::
+
+   In the future, we plan to split the package and have a separate
+   ``taler-auditor`` package.
+
+For the auditor, you must manually configure access to the exchange database,
+the HTTP reverse proxy (typically with TLS certificates) and offline signing.
+
+.. note::
+
+   The current package does not setup a user for the ``taler-auditor-httpd``
+   and includes no provisions for the reverse proxy configuration.
+   This should change in a future release.
+
+
+
 Configuration
 =============