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 Install
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-Officially only Linux operating systems are supported, although users have had success installing on Windows too.
+Officially only Linux operating systems are supported. In many Linux distributions apriltag is available in the system package manager, and installing the packages from your distribution is recommended.
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+## Building from source
+Users have reported success building from source on Linux AND on Windows.
 
 The default installation will place headers in /usr/local/include and shared library in /usr/local/lib. It also installs a pkg-config script into /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig and will install a python wrapper if python3 is installed.