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@@ -20,6 +20,37 @@ On Fedora::
 
     yum install maven3
 
+This package needs a few external dependencies including lxml. If you
+do not have lxml installed, you can either install python-lxml or have
+it installed automatically and build from sources. To build lxml from
+sources, you need a C compiler and the xml and xslt development
+packages installed.
+
+To install python-lxml, execute the following based on your
+distribution.
+
+On Fedora::
+
+    yum install python-lxml
+
+On openSUSE::
+
+    zypper in python-lxml
+
+On Ubuntu::
+
+    apt-get install python-lxml
+
+For building from source,  install the dependencies of lxml.
+
+On openSUSE::
+
+    zypper in libxslt-devel
+
+On Ubuntu::
+
+    apt-get install libxml2-dev libxslt-dev
+
 
 Contributing
 ============