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authorDominik Picheta <dominikpicheta@googlemail.com>2016-07-31 19:42:52 +0200
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2016-07-31 19:42:52 +0200
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@@ -27,6 +27,8 @@ To build from source you will need:
     are: clang, Visual C++, Intel's C++ compiler
   * git or wget
 
+**Note:** When installing ``gcc`` on Ubuntu (and likely other distros) ensure that the ``build-essentials`` package is installed also.
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 If you are on a fairly modern *nix system, the following steps should work:
 
 ```