Provide a 'Building for Linux' page to maintain consistency with 'Building for OSX' and 'Building for Windows' pages

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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/)