From 2465163e3977776d6f3155c60fbf8ad7e7797499 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alex Auvolat <alex@adnab.me>
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2022 12:18:24 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] documentation: add mention to install build-essential

---
 doc/book/cookbook/from-source.md | 11 ++++++++---
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/book/cookbook/from-source.md b/doc/book/cookbook/from-source.md
index 84c0d514..5973d411 100644
--- a/doc/book/cookbook/from-source.md
+++ b/doc/book/cookbook/from-source.md
@@ -4,9 +4,7 @@ weight = 10
 +++
 
 
-Garage is a standard Rust project.
-First, you need `rust` and `cargo`.
-For instance on Debian:
+Garage is a standard Rust project.  First, you need `rust` and `cargo`.  For instance on Debian:
 
 ```bash
 sudo apt-get update
@@ -15,6 +13,13 @@ sudo apt-get install -y rustc cargo
 
 You can also use [Rustup](https://rustup.rs/) to setup a Rust toolchain easily.
 
+In addition, you will need a full C toolchain. On Debian-based distributions, it can be installed as follows:
+
+```bash
+sudo apt-get update
+sudo apt-get install build-essential
+```
+
 ## Using source from `crates.io`
 
 Garage's source code is published on `crates.io`, Rust's official package repository.