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@@ -3,6 +3,26 @@ Implementation of a GTK color picker (forked from Gcolor2)
 
 [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/DoktorMike/gcolpicker.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/DoktorMike/gcolpicker)
 
+## Installing
+
+Should be as simple as
+
+```bash
+git clone git@github.com:DoktorMike/gcolpicker.git
+./configure
+make
+sudo make install
+```
+
+If you run into problems you can hardball it by running
+
+```bash
+libtoolize --copy --force
+./autogen.sh
+make
+sudo make install
+```
+
 ## Fork history
 Original code v0.4 (2005-07-12) from: https://sourceforge.net/projects/gcolor2/files/gcolor2/