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 While the experienced developer will most likely delve into the source code and compile it, this is not necessary. For just using signal-cli, only a few steps are necessary. I will document them following what I did on Ubuntu 14.04 (but this should also work with little or no modification for other platforms).
 
+## Prerequisites
+
+* Java Runtime Environment installed (Ubuntu package "default-jre" or "default-jre-headless"; on Ubuntu 14.04 this installs the Java 8 Runtime Environment)
+* Java Runtime Environment configured with unlimited strength crypto (follow download links on [[StackOverflow|http://stackoverflow.com/a/6481658]]
+
+## Installation
+
+Unpack a release from [[https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli/releases]]
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