diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
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+++ b/README.rst
@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ Platform-specific instructions
 Linux
 +++++
 
-**We don't currently provide binaries for Linux.** If you didn't build Python from source, make sure you have Python's development libraries installed::
+**We don't currently provide binaries for Linux.** If you didn't build Python from source, make sure you have Python's development libraries installed. In Debian or Ubuntu::
 
     $ sudo apt-get install python-dev python-setuptools