diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index ae38be66..40759f1f 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -32,11 +32,20 @@ $ cd tup
 $ ./bootstrap.sh
 $ sudo cp tup /usr/local/bin/tup
 $ sudo cp tup.1 /usr/local/share/man
-
 ```
 
 You may have to build imagemagick from source to get version 7.
 
+```
+$ sudo apt install build-essential pkg-config libltdl-dev libperl-dev libpng-dev
+$ wget https://imagemagick.org/download/ImageMagick.tar.gz
+$ tar xf ImageMagick.tar.gz
+$ cd ImageMagick-*
+$ ./configure --with-modules --enable-shared --with-perl
+$ sudo make install
+$ sudo ldconfig /usr/local/lib
+```
+
 ### macOS
 
 Using [`brew`](https://brew.sh/) on  a macOS: