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+.\" This manpage has been automatically generated by docbook2man
+.\" from a DocBook document.  This tool can be found at:
+.\" <http://shell.ipoline.com/~elmert/comp/docbook2X/>.
+.TH "QBITTORRENT" "1" "September 1st 2007" "Bittorrent client written in C++ / Qt4" ""
+
+.SH NAME
+qBittorrent \- a Bittorrent client written in C++ / Qt4
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+
+\fBqbittorrent\fR [FILE | URL] [FILE | URL...]
+
+\fBqbittorrent\fR \-\-help
+
+\fBqbittorrent\fR \-\-version
+.PP
+.SH "DESCRIPTION"
+
+\fBqBittorrent\fR is an advanced Bittorrent client written in C++ / Qt4,
+using the \fBrblibtorrent\fR library by Arvid Norberg. qBittorrent aims
+to be a good alternative to all other bittorrent clients out there. qBittorrent
+is fast, stable, light, it supports unicode and it provides a good integrated search engine.
+It also comes with UPnP port forwarding / NAT-PMP, encryption (Azureus compatible), FAST extension (mainline) and PeX support (utorrent compatible).
+
+Please report any problem to http://bugs.qbittorrent.org
+.PP
+.SH "AUTHOR"
+
+Christophe Dumez <chris@qbittorrent.org>
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@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ contains(DEBUG_MODE, 0){
     }
 
     # Man page
-    man.files = ../doc/qbittorrent.1.gz
+    man.files = ../doc/qbittorrent.1
     man.path = $$PREFIX/share/man/man1/
     INSTALLS += man