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@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ Ly is a lightweight TUI (ncurses-like) display manager for Linux and BSD.
  - tput
  - shutdown
 
-On Debian-based distros running `apt install build-essential libpam0g-dev libxcb-xkb-dev` should install all the dependencies for you.
+On Debian-based distros running `apt install build-essential libpam0g-dev libxcb-xkb-dev` as root should install all the dependencies for you.
 
 ## Support
 The following desktop environments were tested with success