diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -8,6 +8,12 @@ feeds.
 
 Dependencies are managed with [uv](https://docs.astral.sh/uv/getting-started/installation/) so install that if you haven't already.
 
+autoradio uses [pycurl](https://pypi.org/project/pycurl/) to do downloads, because it does a bunch of the fiddly stuff around redirects, but pycurl itself can be fiddly to install. On a Raspberry Pi I had to manually install the following packages first using ```apt```:
+
+    libssl-dev
+    libcurl4-openssl-dev
+    python3-dev
+
 Then:
 
     > git clone https://git.tilde.town/bombinans/autoradio.git