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@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ I have done my best to make this a 1click compile and install.
 
 If you are on Mac OS you need brew installed.
 
-The prerequisites are "texinfo flex bison gperf gcc g++ make" and "sudo".
+The prerequisites are "bash texinfo flex bison gperf libncurses-dev gcc g++ make" and "sudo".
 
 Then just run the install script for your platform.