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Update the Fedora installation docs

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There are no packages available in EPEL starting with Salt version
2015.5.2 through 2016.3.2. Fedora packages are available in EPEL
starting with 2016.3.3. This PR adds a documentation note about this.
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==================================
======
Fedora
==================================
======
Beginning with version 0.9.4, Salt has been available in the primary Fedora
repositories and `EPEL`_. It is installable using yum. Fedora will have more
up to date versions of Salt than other members of the Red Hat family, which
makes it a great place to help improve Salt!
repositories and `EPEL`_. It is installable using ``yum`` or ``dnf``, depending
on your version of Fedora.
.. note::
Released versions of Salt starting with ``2015.5.2`` through ``2016.3.2``
do not have Fedora packages available though `EPEL`_. To install a version
of Salt within this release array, please use SaltStack's `Bootstrap Script`_
and use the git method of installing Salt using the version's associated
release tag.
Release ``2016.3.3`` and onward will have packaged versions available via
`EPEL`_.
**WARNING**: Fedora 19 comes with systemd 204. Systemd has known bugs fixed in
later revisions that prevent the salt-master from starting reliably or opening
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yum install salt-master
yum install salt-minion
.. _`EPEL`: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL
Installing from ``updates-testing``
-----------------------------------
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Installation from pip:
.. _`PyPI`: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/salt
.. code-block:: bash
pip install salt
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systemctl start salt-minion.service
Now go to the :doc:`Configuring Salt</ref/configuration/index>` page.
.. _`Bootstrap Script`: https://github.com/saltstack/salt-bootstrap
.. _`EPEL`: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL
.. _`PyPI`: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/salt