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 * [imagemagick](https://www.imagemagick.org/) (tested: 7.0 / 6.7)
 * [libxdg-basedir](http://repo.or.cz/w/libxdg-basedir.git) (tested: 1.2)
 
+On a Debian system, install the packages: `build-essential cmake libcrypto++-dev
+libmagick++-dev libxdg-basedir-dev`.
+
 #### Compile
 
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