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@@ -45,6 +45,10 @@ Under debian (and derivatives), the packages to install are::
 (some of those are only available on stretch+ because earlier
 versions lacked python3 support.)
 
+lesana can be run in place from the git checkout / extracted tarball; to
+use ``setup.py`` you will also need setuptools (e.g. from the
+``python3-setuptools`` package under debian and derivatives).
+
 License
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