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 === Debian/Ubuntu ===
 
-The Tahoe build process will download and install many of its dependencies
-when you run `make` or `setup.py build_tahoe`. The base set of
-functionality that it cannot build on its own are provided by the following
-debian packages, so you must have these installed before you will be able
-to do much of anything. (note that the authoritative list of packages is in the
-"`Build-Depends:`" clause of
-[source:misc/sid/debian/control misc/sid/debian/control]):
-
- * build-essential (this includes gcc, g++, make, and the headers in libc-dev)
- * debhelper
- * cdbs
- * python-central
- * python-setuptools
- * python
- * python-dev
-
-In addition, to use the "`make deb-PLATFORM-head`" target, you will also
-need the "debchange" utility from the "devscripts" package, and the
-"fakeroot" package.
-
-To actually run a Tahoe node from a debian package, you will need the following
-supporting libraries installed. (again, the authoritative list of packages
-is in the `Depends:` clause of
-[source:misc/sid/debian/control misc/sid/debian/control])
-
- * python-twisted-core
- * python-twisted-names
- * python-foolscap
- * python-pyopenssl
- * python-nevow
- * python-simplejson
- * python-zfec
- * python-pycryptopp
-
-Even if you don't intend to create a Tahoe .deb package, you can install the
-supporting libraries from debian packages to reduce the build-time
-download-and-compile work.
-
-Please read DownloadDebianPackages if you just want to install pre-compiled debian
-packages of the latest "trunk" source code.
+Tahoe is primarily developed on Debian/Ubuntu machines. You can either build
+from source (as described by this page), or download pre-compiled debian
+packages for several distributions. See the DownloadDebianPackages page for
+details.