fix installation script for Ubuntu 16.04, add script to install libembroidery-convert, adapt README

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+# This file is part of the Inkscape extension 'inkscape-embroidery', 
+# an extension for machine embroidery design using Inkscape.
+
+# Copyright (C) 2017 Maren Hachmann
+
+# inkscape-embroidery is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+
+# inkscape-embroidery is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with inkscape-embroidery.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+#!/bin/bash
+
+# make sure we're in tmp directory
+cd /tmp
+
+# install qmake (which is needed to configure libembroidery)
+sudo apt-get install qt4-qmake
+
+# get the source for embroidermodder
+wget https://github.com/Embroidermodder/Embroidermodder/archive/master.zip -O /tmp/embroidermodder-master.zip
+
+# unzip files
+unzip embroidermodder-master.zip -d /tmp
+
+# switch into directory of the library we're interested in
+cd Embroidermodder-master/libembroidery-convert/
+
+# prepare build
+qmake
+
+# build
+make
+
+# create destination folder (which will automatically be in the PATH environment variable)
+mkdir -p $HOME/bin/
+
+# copy created library there
+cp ./libembroidery-convert $HOME/bin/
+
+echo "==========================
+
+Use the embroidery file format conversion tool like this:
+
+libembroidery-convert file_to_read file_to_write
+
+To get a list of supported embroidery formats, enter:
+
+libembroidery-convert --help
+
+Run this script again to update your libembroidery-convert version."