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@@ -2,3 +2,14 @@ stikkit
 =======
 
 command line tool to upload things to stikked
+
+Building on linux
+=================
+
+Checkout this repository
+```
+cd stikkit
+make
+```
+
+NOTE: you need to have libcurl-dev installed in your system