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+## Prerequisites
+- git
+- cmake
+- Anything CMake reports to you during makefile generation
+
+## Checkout Dolphin
+1. Create a directory to store dolphin in
+2. cd into that directory
+3. `git clone https://github.com/dolphin-emu/dolphin .`
+4. Wait for the checkout to finish
+
+## Building
+
+1. `mkdir build && cd build`
+2. `cmake ..
+3. `make`
+
+It's strongly recommended to perform a global installation via `sudo make install`.
+
+## Externally Managed Packages
+
+On some distributions of Linux, package maintainers provide builds of Dolphin. These are listed below:
+
+- [Arch Linux](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/dolphin-emu-git/)
+
+
+