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 ## Installation
 
-First you'll need to make sure your system has a c++ compiler.  For OSX, XCode will work, for Ubuntu, the build-essential and libssl-dev packages work.
+First you'll need to make sure your system has cURL and a c++ compiler.  For OSX, XCode will work, for Ubuntu, the build-essential and libssl-dev packages work.
 
 ### Install script