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 # ltchat
 Qt GUI front-end to the Lightron.org chat.
 
 The Qt5 ltchat is the main focus; Qt4 ltchat development may lag behind.
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+## Installing
+This requires Python2 to run. It also requires several libraries: httplib, urllib. If you wish to run the Qt5 GUI (recommended), it requires PyQt5. Qt4 requires PyQt4 or PySide to run.
+### Debian or Ubuntu based systems
+You can install all this in one line: `sudo apt-get install python python-pyqt5 python-urllib3 python-httplib2`