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@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ On OS X:
 
 On Debian-based Linuxes:
 
-    sudo apt-get install sdl cairo
+    sudo apt-get install libsdl1.2-dev libcairo2-dev libpango1.0-dev
 
 ### Building