README: Adding information to help users troubleshoot Powerline issues.

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### Installation
There are two things you need to make this theme work correctly: Powerline
fonts, and the theme itself.
#### Install Powerline Fonts
First, you need to install Powerline Fonts. You can find the [installation
instructions
here](https://powerline.readthedocs.org/en/latest/installation/linux.html#fonts-installation).
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repository](https://github.com/powerline/fonts) if you want to manually install
them for your OS.
After you have installed Powerline fonts, make the default font in your terminal
emulator the Powerline font you want to use.
#### Install Powerlevel9k
To install this theme, clone this repository into your Oh-My-Zsh `custom/themes`
directory.
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![](http://bhilburn.org/content/images/2015/03/solarized-light.png)
### Troubleshooting
Here are some fixes to some common problems.
#### Gaps Between Segments
You can see this issue in the screenshot, below:
![](http://bhilburn.org/content/images/2014/12/font_issue.png)
Thankfully, this is easy to fix. This happens if you have successfully installed
Powerline fonts, but did not make a Powerline font the default font in your
terminal emulator (e.g., 'terminator', 'gnome-terminal', 'konsole', etc.,).
### Contributions / Bugs / Contact
If you have any requests or bug reports, please use the tracker in this Github