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@@ -52,16 +52,17 @@ Installing
 The Python way
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-    pip3 install gcp
-
-Note that you should have the following packages installed so that pip can
-complete the installation (Debian packages names, but you get the idea):
+First, install the following packages on your system (these Debian packages
+names, they may be different on other distros/systems):
 - libdbus-1-dev
 - libdbus-glib-1-dev
 - libgirepository1.0-dev
 - libcairo2-dev
 - python3-cairo-dev
 
+Then install gcp with pip:
+    pip3 install gcp
+
 On Debian-based systems
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