diff --git a/README b/README
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--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -5,7 +5,10 @@ It's based on dwm.
 
 Requirements
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+
 In order to build awesome you need the Xlib header files, libconfuse and cairo.
+Creating the man pages also requires recent versions of the asciidoc and xmlto
+tools.
 
 Installation
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