diff --git a/Requirements.txt b/Requirements.txt
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@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+Jinja2==2.7.3
+argparse==1.2.1
+-e git+https://github.com/tiarno/plastex#egg=plasTeX
diff --git a/readme.md b/readme.md
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+++ b/readme.md
@@ -22,6 +22,13 @@ Clone Patacrep repos:
 >     git clone git://github.com/patacrep/patacrep.git
 >     git clone git://github.com/patacrep/patadata.git
 
+# Installation from source
+
+Make sure you have [pip](https://pip.pypa.io/en/latest/) installed, and then run
+
+>     pip install -r Requirements.txt
+>     python setup.py install
+
 # Run
 
 >     <patacrep>/songbook <songbook_file.sb>