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Expand Up @@ -38,7 +38,10 @@ AprilTag is the subject of the following papers.
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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.

## Building from source
Users have reported success building from source on Linux AND on Windows.
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You make it sound as if it is a surprise that this builds on Linux. This is not the case. We have a CI to test the source build and this is officially supported on Linux. We also have CI for Windows and macOS. So maybe, just drop this remark entirely.


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.

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