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 ### Installing
 
+#### Prerequisites
+
+- Moderately recent Rust Nightly (e.g. via [rustup](https://rustup.rs/))
+- libnice development headers (`libnice-devel` on Fedora, `libnice-dev` on Debian)
+- clang (`clang` on Fedora and Debian)
+
 #### Building
 For now, mumble-web-proxy must be built from source. Pre-built binaries may be provided at a later point in development.