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@@ -30,6 +30,9 @@ you're interested in downloading the tracks. Beware, there's a lot of them.
 
 You'll need Rust 1.74.0+.
 
+If you're on linux, you also need the OpenSSH & Alsa headers.
+Alsa can be installed with `alsa-lib` on Arch or `libasound2-dev` on Ubuntu.
+
 ### Cargo
 
 The recommended installation method is to use cargo: