Added Requirements, Installation and Configuration to README.md

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 ## Requirements
 
+* HTCondor batch system
+* XRootD proxy caches managed by XRootD meta-manager
+* python (version 3.X) including development packages
+* python-setuptools
+* xrootd-client including development packages
+* six
+* pyyaml
+* xrootd-python (suitable for python version 3.X)
+
 ## Installation
 
+### For RHEL based distributions
+
+1. Install prerequisites python and XRootD:
+
+```
+yum install python34 xrootd-client-devel python34-devel python34-setuptools
+```
+
+2. Install additional prerequisites six and pyyaml via pip3
+
+```
+cd /usr/lib/python3.4/site-packages && python3.4 easy_install.py pip
+pip3 install six pyyaml
+```
+
+3. Get python 3 compatible version of pyxrootd
+
+```
+git clone https://github.com/KIT-ETP-Computing/xrootd-python.git /opt/xrootd-python
+export XRD_LIBDIR="/usr/lib64"
+export XRD_INCDIR="/usr/include/xrootd"
+cd /opt/xrootd-python && python3.4 setup.py install
+```
+
+4. Clone NaviX repository and start service
+
+```
+git clone https://gitlab.ekp.kit.edu/ETP-XRootD/NaviX.git
+cd NaviX
+python3 NaviX.py
+```
+
 ## Configuration
 
+Please adopt the configs listed in the configs folder to your local setup. Layout and syntax are shown within the exemplary config files.
+
 ## Links
 
 * [XRootD project](http://xrootd.org/)
 * [HTCondor - High Throughput Computing](https://research.cs.wisc.edu/htcondor/)
 
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