From c7329d2eceb4b431221e3a83c7ed313ef731c3fa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: albertony <12441419+albertony@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2021 21:05:41 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] docs: add section in install documentation about portable
 install

See #5591
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 docs/content/install.md | 22 +++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/docs/content/install.md b/docs/content/install.md
index a64676968..1877f0f26 100644
--- a/docs/content/install.md
+++ b/docs/content/install.md
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ Rclone is a Go program and comes as a single binary file.
 ## Quickstart ##
 
   * [Download](/downloads/) the relevant binary.
-  * Extract the `rclone` or `rclone.exe` binary from the archive
+  * Extract the `rclone` executable, `rclone.exe` on Windows, from the archive.
   * Run `rclone config` to setup. See [rclone config docs](/docs/) for more details.
   * Optionally configure [automatic execution](#autostart).
 
@@ -228,6 +228,26 @@ Instructions
           - rclone
 ```
 
+## Portable installation ##
+
+As mentioned [above](https://rclone.org/install/#quickstart), rclone is single
+executable (`rclone`, or `rclone.exe` on Windows) that you can download as a
+zip archive and extract into a location of your choosing. When executing different
+commands, it may create files in different locations, such as a configuration file
+and various temporary files. By default the locations for these are according to
+your operating system, e.g. configuration file in your user profile directory and
+temporary files in the standard temporary directory, but you can customize all of
+them, e.g. to make a completely self-contained, portable installation.
+
+Run the [config paths](/commands/rclone_config_paths/) command to see
+the locations that rclone will use.
+
+To override them set the corresponding options (as command-line arguments, or as
+[environment variables](https://rclone.org/docs/#environment-variables)):
+  - [--config](https://rclone.org/docs/#config-config-file)
+  - [--cache-dir](https://rclone.org/docs/#cache-dir-dir)
+  - [--temp-dir](https://rclone.org/docs/#temp-dir-dir)
+
 ## Autostart
 
 After installing and configuring rclone, as described above, you are ready to use rclone